The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return. These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped.
Man is a transitional animal.
He is not the climax of creation. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot.