The X-Files Season 6 Episode 22

Scully: (Voice over) From space, it seems an abstraction a magician's trick on a darkened stage. And from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive. It first appeared in the sea almost four billion years ago in the form of single-celled life. In an explosion of life spanning
millions of years, nature's first multicellular organisms began to
multiply... and then it stopped. 440 million years ago, a great
mass extinction would kill off nearly every species on the planet
leaving the vast oceans decimated and empty.

Slowly, plants began
to evolve, then insects, only to be wiped out in the second great
mass extinction upon the Earth. The cycle repeated again and again. Reptiles emerging, independent of the sea only to be killed off.
Then dinosaurs, struggling to life along with the first birds, fish,
and flowering plants their decimations Earth's fourth and fifth great extinctions. Only 100,000 years ago, Homosapiens appear man.

From cave paintings to the Bible to Columbus and Apollo 11, we have
been a tireless force upon the earth and off cataloguing the natural world as it unfolds to us. Rising to a world population of over five billion people all descended from that original single cell, that first spark of life. But for all our knowledge, what no one can say for certain, is what or who ignited that original spark. Is there
a plan, a purpose or a reason to our existence? Will we pass, as
those before us, into oblivion, into the sixth extinction that scientists warn is already in progress? Or will the mystery be revealed through a sign, a symbol, a revelation?