If the universe is queerer than we can suppose, is it just because we've been naturally selected to suppose only what we needed to suppose in order to survive in the Pleistocene of Africa?

But suppose you take some dirt and dig through it and then put it into these spectrometers, because there's bacteria all over the place or you take water anywhere on Earth, because it's teaming with life, and you make the same analysis the spectrum looks completely different.