Yes a very interesting thread, I'm enjoying it. Some I don't understand, some I don't agree with, much I do agree with.
Who are we? Where did we come from? What are we doing?
As far as I can see we are animals with grasping hands and the brains to use them, sometimes to create beauty, sometimes to kill. At the end of the day we are the most successful preditors ever, and preditors by their nature kill things.