I like to think about our world. How.. wonderfully everything is made like a puzzle piece. Have you ever really thought about it? How perfectly things work out. It always puzzles me that people don't think that we were created. I watch speeches and read articles written by highly educated people; grown people, who say the world came from the "Big Bang" or who aren't really interested where it came from but feel we weren't created.
Think about it..
Why do we sleep with the night? How do babies know to laugh when they're happy? How do our bodies fit together so well, whether it comes to making love or just holding hands? Our eyes constantly blink to keep our eyes wet. Why are our eyes even wet?!
How did we create not one, but hundreds of languages to communicate with?
Have you ever taken a science class? Do you understand how incredibly complicated a cell is? If one thing were to go wrong or be even slightly different, our whole body would be dysfunctional.
How do animals have instinct enough to stay together? Or even instinct at all? What is it about our insides that give humans discretion?
We get fruit from trees and vegetables from the ground! Made especially for eating! It's beautiful! Why do we dance when we hear music? And sing when we're happy?
And what I love about people is how different we are! I understand that that sounds cheesy and it's over used but.. I was helping a friend on a piece of music he was working on. He had trouble getting the pitch right, but I hear it for the first time and can sing along with it almost perfectly as the song continues. There is something about me that makes me capable to hear a difference that he doesn't have. BUT he is far better than me at running. And not just because I'm overweight. He can run for days and no matter how hard I try and assert myself I could never be like him.
Girls are soft and curvy where men are strong and firm. Our bodies know the best way to keep us alive and healthy in every situation.
We have the capability to love! Love.. man. Love is crazy. Makes you do crazy things. Honestly. Remember that boy/girl from grade school that you had your first crush on? How giddy and electric they made you feel? Or how you feel when you look into the face of son or daughter. Maybe a little brother or sister. A cousin. A young child in your life, and you look into their young, innocent, soft faces. And you think to yourself "You are the most beautiful boy/girl in the entire world." And you just want life to be perfect for them. And for them to have everything they ever wanted. When they say their first words, ride a bike for the first time, first day of school, how their face lights up when you tell them they're going to Disneyland.
Where did this love come from if we weren't created? People argue that we evolved from other animals taking the parts we need and changing so we can survive more efficiently. What then, is the point of love? If you think about it, it's more dangerous than useful.
I'm feeling great tonight.
We sleep at night mostly because there's less light for doing stuff at night. Someone who slept during the day would have a harder time acquiring food and avoiding predators, and would be less likely to pass on his or her genes.
ReplyDeleteHuman brain chemistry causes us to mostly express our emotions in the same ways, so that we can, as a communal species, communicate better with each other. This kind of basic communication is common among most animals that live in groups because being able to make it clear when you like or dislike something is important to operating cohesively. Expressing unhappiness can tell others in your group what to avoid, and expressing happiness can allow them to share in benefits of the environment.
To make these last two points clear I must skip ahead to your last question: the purpose of love. We are animals that would have a hard time surviving on our own in most environments on earth, especially with the stone age technology (or complete lack of technology) we evolved with. Thus, those whose genes allowed their brain chemistry to make them empathetic and attached to others were able to collect resources of survival more effectively through things like cooperative hunting, or quick scavenging with one group-member serving as a lookout for predators. This made them much more likely to pass on their genes and create new generations like themselves. Love is extremely useful, especially at the primeval stage.
Moving on, our bodies fit together for things like sex because if they didn't we would have a pretty hard time reproducing, and there wouldn't be any of us.
Wet eyes are necessary to clear the eye of dust and debris, and blinking evolved alongside the immigration of animals onto the land, where this was a more efficient way of moving tears across the eye, and helped the vision of land vertebrates to function better, allowing them to gather resources and void predators more effectively, making them more likely to survive and pass on their genes.
While the exact origins of spoken language are unknown, language is made possible by humans' large brains which allow us to interpret symbolism on a larger scale. Languages would have developed independently among small family-groups, and then begun to merge together as we merged into increasingly large communities following the invention of agriculture. There remained separate languages as different communities did not have enough need to communicate with each other to form a single language.
Cells are complicated, but are generally good at accurately passing on their genes and creating other cells identical to themselves. Often, though, they fail to do this, and create mutant cells. The body has mechanisms for killing mutant cells that fail to function properly. Occasionally, these mechanisms also fail, allowing the mutant cell to reproduce, which is called cancer. However, the average individual cell is not big enough to have a significant impact on the body by itself.
As for the instinct to stay together, I believe I covered that when I addressed the purpose of love. Brain chemistry carries a lot of genetic influence, and most instincts relate to basic survival skills of the species, which are created through natural selection over millions of years. Those creatures who lack the necessary instincts for survival die and do not pass on their genes.
Fruits and vegetables are not made especially for eating. They are made for the survival and reproductive purposes of the plant. The fleshy parts we eat are often there to provide food to keep the seed alive until it can take root. Other parts serve other purposes, and I won't take the time to explain the entirety of plant biology here, but let it suffice to say that we eat them because they are made up of organic material that is useful to us because, as other organic life forms, we need many of the same things they do. No life form creates parts it doesn't need on any kind of large or significant scale. That would be a waste of resources and energy, and would make the life form less likely to survive and reproduce.
ReplyDeleteThe psychology of music is still largely understudied, but it involves the connection of the left and right brain in a way that induces pleasure. It is essentially a side-effect of our large brains: a mutation that remains because it does no harm.
Women have higher levels of body fat and skeletal structures that make them "curvy" because these features help with reproduction. Women with these features were able to reproduce more.
Men are larger and more muscular because these features help in the traditional role of hunter, resource-gatherer, and defender, allowing them to better provide for and protect themselves and their offspring.
We have positive emotional responses to children because this makes us more willing to provide for them, and even have more, which has obvious benefits in terms of passing on our genes. The people who don't think kids are adorable don't reproduce, and their genes are removed from the gene pool.
Everything we do and are has an evolutionary explanation and purpose. That doesn't, however, mean it isn't remarkable. Billions of years ago a chemical reaction began in the primordial soup. This reaction quickly began to duplicate itself, and eventually form simple cells. These cells began to mutate into different variations with different means of surviving. Eventually, clusters of them began to work together and specialize, forming multicellular organisms. And billions of years later, that once-simple chemical reaction became capable of looking up at the stars and thinking they were beautiful. I think that's great.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteLol! I didn't right this blog because I didn't understand what everything does and was meant for. All of this blows my mind even more and shows me further proof of a Creator.
A beautiful machine that could not have been made by chance (in my opinion).
Everything here on earth needs everything else. If one thing were to be missing than the whole balance would fall out of order.
Don't you ever look at your life and realize how perfectly everything worked out? Only a few months ago you were so upset that you missed and opportunity or failed at a task and were miserable about it. But now you look at your life and realize that if it weren't for the mishap, everything you enjoy now wouldn't be?
Maybe something else would have happened but it wouldn't have been for the best. I see a huge correlation between physical nature and our own lives. Just like God made all of the animals and plants fit into a system, he also has out own lives in a system.