OUR COSMIC ORIGINS seeks to answer such questions as: What are our origins? Who or what are we? What makes as uniquely human? Did we come from the chance fusion of atoms and molecules or are we chimpanzees? Did some extraterrestrial entities or divine beings create us in their image and likeness? What of our future? Are we predestined machines "moved, directed and commanded by exterior influences," as Mark Twain put it in What is Man? Or are we free to choose our destiny?"