Life….
I will tell you how I see life…. And you tell me if you agree….
If something struggles for existence, it has life…
Everything struggles for existence… it’s just that our human eye is incapable of perceiving that specific life form as such…
In our ignorance, we see only those that live and function similar to us as having life…. Animals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc, that have eyes, and breathe, and move, are the easiest to relate to… and there is little debate as to whether or not they have life!
Talk of plants and trees… faith communities had themselves convinced that they were non-living, until a scientist took it upon himself to prove convincingly that they have life just as we do… except it is a different life form! And now we all know they do….
Plants struggle for their existence… they always did…. They respond to nature… only, they do it differently from the way you and I do…. Try killing them, they don’t run away like men or animals do, but they do resist… They always did! Let them grow… and they will…. They will spread and take over more of earth just like men do…. They always had life… it’s just that it took the human race a long time to realize and accept the fact…. Plants have life…. they want to live!
Now think with me….
Water struggles for its existence… It is never stationery…. See the shores of the oceans and the seas… water lapping against the sands… the waves constantly conquering land and then receding… and rivers cutting through gorges and rocks… carving their way through earth as they tear through her to have their way… as if to proclaim their celebration of life! Try to contain a river with a dam or try changing its course… it struggles! Leave it alone and it conquers…. Water sustains life… water gives life! Life can be sustained or given only by something that also has life….
Water has life! We have not yet been able to prove it!!! And like we have always done in our arrogant ignorance… we dismiss anything that we do not know at that point in time as non-existent!
And then wind… Who has not seen its fury? And it is always moving… try containing it! Good luck!!! Try living without it… sustain yourself without this life sustainer….
Where am I going with this?
Air has life… It lives… it sustains life…. we have not been able to show ourselves, in a manner that we can understand thus far, that air has life… it is a different life form!!!
I hold the same regard for rocks and mountains and fire and planets and stars….
I hold the same opinion of the entire universe…. Everything… EVERYTHING has life!!!
It is but a question of us opening our eyes to the fact… extending our intellect to the fact!
I am an Engineer… a man of science and reason… And the most important building block to any scientific discovery is “non-rejection until it is proven”…. in fact, even those that were proven one way once, were revisited by scientists later, to stand the earlier theories corrected!
All this should only go on to tell us that we know less than we believe we do….
If you are a man of science, stop rejecting such ideas…. If you are man of faith, fetter your ego that you know something for sure, where you actually may not! God’s creation has more than you and I can possibly comprehend!!!
What say you now of life???
