So are we all just a bunch of sea monkeys?

yea but as stories are told they get changed there was probaly a little something that happened and it changed the way people think about it now

I had an idea once, that the universe was just a package, and all life as we know it is just a anti bacterial agent used to keep the contents of the package fresh, and the millions of years we know as our history is just the time in between where the package was picked up, and it's arrival at the sorting center, literally jsut a few hours.. damn shrooms

isnt it special enough?

All of that stuff - you don't need superstition, nature is amazing on its own.