Sympoeisis

We didn't quite get to life, the universe and everything (time was limited) but the student-led discussion after a screening of the Lynn Margulis documentary tonight was pretty exciting - and left us all with an appetite for more occasions to talk about science (especially evolutionary biology) and religion (or perhaps spirituality). My interdisciplinary science colleagues were there, too. The chair, K, a molecular biologist, said the film was like six semester's of biology in two hours. My co-conspirator in planning this event, D, also a microbiologist, explained to us that Margulis "thinks like a microbe."