Flesh and Bone

My skin is comprised of microorganisms whose life is completely centered around performing a specific action in order to survive, which makes my skin layer healthy and preserves its condition that is beneficial for both me and my little micro-buddy.  Every last micro-meter of me is a collection; a micro-colony that composes me and orchestrates the show.

They possess a nucleus, they possess some sort of thought reflex that enables their survival and allows them to avoid threats and obtain dietary nutrition. You see, there’s no difference between the two of us. He is micro, I am macro. Our key difference is merely our size, and the scale that which our organs operate. I’m not saying we’re equally or even less complex than these organisms. We execute the same functions just merely with different methods, different levels of intricateness and complexity. But the purpose remains the same. Ingest upkeep, dispose excess waste.

Of course we don’t only occupy our time with ingesting upkeep and disposing of the excess waste, we’re Humans! Our activities are significant and I’m invulnerable to dangers. I can relax in a city, completely protected from any possible threat that could end my life if we were to fight. We separate ourselves from the reality of what “life” is for the majority of “life” because we have it so lax; we never worry about death, even though we’re the only creatures capable of anticipating and avoiding death. We’re too caught up in our day-to-day nonsense most of the time fulfilling no greater purpose than if we were to be naked apes suspecting predators around every corner and still hooting at each other to show acknowledgement and engaging in a physical dispute over something as petty as status or rank.

How would we appear and be recognized IF in the very improbable and likely impossible event of visitation from an alien species, far more advanced than we were in every way, result of 200 million years of evolution. Let’s say they did discover interstellar travel and now they can slowly creep across a galaxy by jumping from star system to star system, seizing an inhabitable planet in each system and terraforming it. Then they begin to change the atmospheric composition very rapidly with specifically designed technology capable of achieving such a feat.

 This is not impossible, in fact: that’s how Earth gained its oxygen rich atmosphere, through the earliest microorganisms that learned to photosynthesize and began exhaling oxygen, gradually building up enough to alter the entire composition to a sustainable oxygen atmosphere. The benefits of oxygen? Well it’s toxic to plant cells, hence the disposal (same way we exhale Carbon Dioxide and it can become toxic in high dosages) So we exhale Carbon Dioxide, as a waste product, and then they inhale it, manufacturing our essential chemical compound required for healthy operation. So it’s not refutable to assert that without plants, there is no us, we radiate in perfect harmony. It may not even be insane to insist that were an inevitable by-product of simple plant cells. They permit the conditions necessary for our emergence and ability to thrive. Given the amount of time our ancestors were given to survive in order to drastically convert our atmosphere the way they did, we will be the inevitable response.

As we begin to evolve and diversify we gain complexity and the density of our cell colonies increases to execute more sophisticated functions. 3.8 billion years, that is the earliest “fossil” evidence of a living organism that was obviously microscopic. 3.8 billion years. Try to picture that number inside of your head using a picture to display the number, can’t do it? So now you must admit this time scale is beyond your understanding and accept the fact that evolution has had TIME. Okay, okay, let’s say a disaster, equivalent to the asteroid that annihilated the dinosaurs were to happen again, how could life become so complex, be wiped out, and still have the time to form entities as intelligent and coherent as we humans? Well the site of the suspected dinosaur-annihilating asteroid crater has determined that this event occurred 65 million years ago. Okay, now try to picture the number 65 million using a picture as to display the number, can’t do that either? 65 million years is an ASTRONOMICAL amount of time when put into the narrow perspective of a creature who will, and only if extremely fortunate, live to experience a century. We’ve seen cellular mutation occur in a few generations, which may span a few days, or possibly span years. But nevertheless, you can’t forget that cellular mutation can materialize very rapidly.

Given what I talked about previously, wouldn’t that indicate that even macro-organisms such as ourselves are constantly changing and evolving, considering we are completely comprised of these cells. Given the time life was permitted to evolve and expand, it becomes more and more feasible that life has very slowly, yet steadily progressed and enhanced its ability to process nutrition and manage bodily functions. It’s hard to even conceive these idea’s when you put little thought into them because at first sight, thing’s always appear simple. The intricacy of life and the universe is unraveling before our eyes through scientific innovation and discovery. The mundane things we ignore day-to-day have a very deep background to them. Your screen that you are using to view this writing took years of brainstorming to formulate and then it took time to be constructed and shipped onto a boat that was invented through science and math equations that show us it will be capable of carrying weights that are just absurd to imagine. Your music device that rests in your pocket, begin to speculate the effort put into that. The headphones, how does it transmit that mp3 file into a noise that is translated through speakers that snugly fit in your ear? A determined and devoted scientist had to invent what enables the possibility of harnessing such a powerful device containing the world’s entire known history in a case which is measured in centimeters. It appears simple at a glance, but there is a rich history within everything that surrounds you, some may not be as enticing to examine, but there is history in everything around us.

Where could of matter originated? You know, those atomic compounds that make up the very elements that compose everything else? Where COULD they have originated from, or what force created them? This is the designated target of science, and this is the incinerating conundrum yet to be answered. It’s the ultimate mystery, the perplexing enigma that we are incapable of currently solving.

It may be impossible to solve this, after all, we occupy this moment in time, not the moment in time where the universe spontaneously burst into existence. It may be accurately recreated, and strongly suggested through experiments that are semi-conclusive. A key aspect of scientific discovery is observation, now tell me how we’re going to observe the moment when everything we know was initiated. This is a difficult task, and you must understand that the simple fact we can’t confirm it with absolute certainty is because this is the most difficult task that exists. All I can say with absolute certainty is that God isn’t rescuing those cancer patients lying in a hospital bed, but science is pursuing the answer and achieving results, not a cure, but there’s monetary negligence from the government towards the organizations devising the cure. Not only is funding a detriment to the industry, but how many people are aspiring to become microbiologists in the search for the cure of cancer? They’re the minority, and that’s certain. Overcoming these types of defective conditions is a miracle, being actualized by the members of the science community.