Variety: A-Z Blogging Challenge
There is a scene in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman where a young child, never having seen a black man before asks: "Did God paint you?" Freeman replies "Did God paint me?, why yes." "Why" asks the boy. "Because Allah loves wondrous variety," Freeman responds. Allah simply means "The God" in Arabic, so I hope that doesn't offend anyone. One only needs to look at their back yard, or at the stars at night to understand that God does indeed love wondrous variety. If we even ponder the jungle regions of this planet or the many unexplored portions of the oceans the beauty, variety, and uniqueness of life around us is not only inspirational but not close to being completely cataloged by science. When one looks at genetics the differences between human beings across the planet are so small as to be inconsequential. Now...