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There are countless things in existence that we are not aware of. The truth is, that we are completely oblivious to that fact too, that we don’t have the knowledge of those things. This reality alone opens up a wide window of possibilities. The possibilities that we must make room for. So whenever we address the subject of paranormal with a presumption in our mind that it is just a collection of cooked up stories and interesting hoaxes, we should ask ourselves this question, ‘How much do we actually know?’ Our compilation of empirical knowledge is changing every day. Whatever we believed to be unchangeable has – changed. On May 7, 2014 Scientific American's article on how a bacterium's DNA was engineered to contain an unnatural genetic code, rocked the world. Life as we knew it, contained only four nucleobases, adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). Now scientists have added two more bases to the DNA of a bacterium and changed the face of natural life with the sole purpose that more bases would mean that the DNA so engineered would now be able to carry more information in the genetic material. The bacterium has accepted this change and is living and dividing. The face of our future, LIFE's future, has been changed. No one ever thought that this was possible and that nature can make room for this kind of unprecedented, groundbreaking, unthinkable and revolutionary change. So I ask you one more question then, ‘How much do we actually know about nature?’