Compendium

Brief comprehensive summary (n.)

Yesterday in my fourth period English class I found myself giving a version of the following speech. I think we were talking about not believing in God, but I don't remember exactly what prompted it:

"Isn't it possible," I asked, "that the universe exploded and dust and particles formed from the explosion and the dust was going so fast that the particles hit each other and stuck together and rolled together like snowballs until they were massive enough to orbit each other, and enough time passed that the particles of dust could grow and mature over zillions and zillions of years into different kinds of dust balls, and that on one particular dust ball that was a particular distance from another, hotter dust ball there was an atmosphere of oxygen and water and rocks that had formed from the dust, and that one day the light shining from the hotter dust ball hit a rock with some water near it just the right way so that a mold with little cells began to grow and feed on the light, and these cells made other cells that fed on the light, and some of these cells were better at feeding on the light and the water than other cells, and the ones that were better at this reproduced more, and when they reproduced they were all slightly different and some cells ended up being made of other cells, and that some cells grew tails, some cells grew eyes to find the light, some cells were made to eat other cells, and some cells were made with eyes and tails to find other cells to eat, and then these cell-eating cells reproduced, and some of them grew legs and could get more cells to eat because they could walk and swim and find the light with their eyes, and these walking cells of cells ended up on land and reproduced there and found more cells of cells to eat with their eyes and legs, and some of them had hair and others had scales and the ones with scales were around for awhile until something happened and the scaly ones died but the hairy ones lasted and then the hairy ones started reproducing more and became different, and some of them started walking upright and talking to one another and making fire and agreeing about things and having thoughts and building things and having more thoughts about what they built and began building more things and reproduced again and here we are?"