If there were to be a planetary court case including all animal and plants indicting the human species, would we plead guilty or not guilty? While it is true that in this past 200 years, we have created human made extinctions, threatened the global climate, destroyed the forests, killed the animals, and launched wars, it is also true that in this past 200 years that we were able to discover and create so much in nature. Is humanity gift or curse, creation would ask the question. Are we going to transcend ourselves or are we going to doom ourselves? That is the question. Yet there is beauty and mystery to all this. We have come this way bringing to fulfillment all things unto its last and finest--even plotting the very genes that make our species and conquering the stars...We have often acted out of harmony. Yet hope springs eternal in the human heart. We have transcended our ape-like origins, certainly we may be able to transcend our dark passions and celebrate the meaning of being truly human.