A Dolphin’s Fingers

A dolphin’s fingers:

perhaps our measure is wrong — and with this I am reminded of a dolphin’s fingers, and more there is other remaining physical evidence of their land based history. Inside of a dolphin’s flipper reside five distinct finger bones, as well there are several other features, remnants of their time on land, that are very similar to our own. Over 4 billion years ago early life emerged from the sea, simple singled celled microbes cultivated conditions for a plant based world and were later followed by more complex forms that continued to evolve on land. It’s how we came to be. At some point, one of these creatures, earliest of dolphins, sniffed the air with a last intent of staying on land and returned to life within the ocean.

of course this is simplified evolution, vastly so, but the point is intelligence, not an individual measure of how smart another life form is, not a comparison, nor contrast, to our own evolution of intelligent design — just intelligence itself, life in such harmony and wonder that a single celled creature could ignite the world in green and shades of flowers, and that the earliest dolphins followed from the sea to roam the land. Yet evolution, life, took another turn and some creatures returned to the ocean to evolve, adapting to conditions in such harmonious extent that they are now seamless from their world.