Evolution
The concept of evolution seems so obvious to me that I can’t fathom how people could reject it logically. I don’t understand why evolution has to debunk the existence of a God. There can be a creator that, in addition to creating life, also created patterns of harmony between all life on Earth to sustain the life for perpetuity. Ever since the first single celled organism existed on this planet, matter had to work in harmony to create a functioning organism. Any matter that wasn’t working in harmony would not survive to be a part of the cell. As those cells were spawned from the primordial goo the cells that didn’t work in harmony with the other cells then died off or found another system that they could thrive in. Of those cells that survived, some found that they work better with some cells rather than other cells…so they would work closely together until they began forming multicellular systems. These cells would eventually work in harmony with other cells until they began to form more and more complex organisms (or living systems). These organisms would work in harmony with one another living off of the waste of the other cells and finding fuel sources that were abundant in their environment…if they couldn’t live off of something that was abundant then they would eventually go extinct.
Over billions of years these systems became more and more complicated and included more and more combinations of cells which eventually over millions of years the old systems that worked well with the current systems and formed plants and animals. And the animals lived off of the other animals and the plants. The systems all worked in harmony. There were probably systems back then that there are no record of because they didn’t work in harmony that was nature. The system as a whole is made up of millions of smaller systems. That is evolution. We are all the same. We’re made from the same stuff that is on the ground and in the air. The strange things that swim in the ocean are distant cousins. The world is one constant evolution shedding off unnecessary layers to make room for more harmonious systems of life.
Thinking about cells and micro-organisms is pretty abstract though and most of us can’t envision what that must be like or how long a million years is. It’s easy if you think about money. Think about how much money you have, then think about how much money Donald Trump has. Then think of your grandfather’s life as a hundred dollar bill. That will give you an idea.
But the most obvious evolution is the one we’re a part of. Our society. Whether you believe in certain animals being living ancestors of other animals or you believe all life was put on this Earth in a matter of days exactly how it is you have to be aware of the evolution of society since the dawn of man. Primitive man formed packs with other tribes of primitive men. Then those joined tribes would form villages and cities and colonies. Then countries and Allied Forces and United Nations and PETA and Walmart. And the ones that work in harmony with the other systems get to stay but then others like the Nazis, the Druids, the Vaudevillian needed to either evolve to work in harmony with the other systems or would die off. Now we have social networks and world wide webs and roadway systems and earthquake drills and evacuation maps and cell phones that work on grids with satellites. And the parts of our technological evolution that become obsolete end up being taken out of the system and, thus, become extinct. The evolution we can’t see is going on constantly in your mind. Work with the system and you will survive. Work in a way that disrupts the harmony of the system and you will die. The system will continue to evolve with or without us. The things that live in harmony with nature and the systems of life that so delicately balance each other out in a blueprint that would be a genome project on a massive scale.
How well do you think our systems of life are working in harmony with the systems that make up the rest of the biosphere as time goes on? Do you think cancer knows it’s cancer? If it had the consciousness to understand it’s role in the system in time to find a way to work in harmony before killing the host, would it? The next evolution has to occur in our minds. The future of our societal systems of life will rely greatly on our ability to learn to see the world as one.
And if you do believe in evolution, just for fun, go to the gym and put the 2001: A Space Odyssey opening music on as you watch us run in place and swing from bars. It’s like Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of OZ times a hundred.
