Escape into Evolution

I found it fascinating when the marine biologist described the terrible violence of small life under the ice, that creatures there were worse than any imagined in science fiction; more frightening than any writers can conceive.

Herzog then asks an incredible question; could it be that humans left the oceans to escape these horrors? And the fellow thought a moment and said, "Yes".

A light went on deep inside my brain, an,"aha!" moment; a primordal memory awakened? I knew as a profound truth that escape was the impetus for our evolution.

I always believed Man evolved in movement toward something positive; that we "went toward the light". Now I believe we were escaping from the darkness. There is a spiritual point there, but I`m not sure what it is. I guess that it is which direction Man is facing; are we fundamentally brave or fearful?

Either way, we got out; that is what matters.