What evolution taught me…

danyphantomzone:

• I’m filled with sense of wonder to think we were all helping each other make it from the very beginning, especially with microscopic life creating oxygen. It really struck me.
• The line between life and non-life is foggier than thought, when we think of the chemicals we’re made of. (An organization of matter and energy resulting from a genetic sequence.)
• We can see there was no singular point where “BAM!” life began.
• It’s all a gradual process. We’re all a work in progress. 
• Definitions are important.
• DNA…RNA… GNA… TNA… (last one was a joke)  But genes can be made of many things. Makes me wonder about String Theory. If we can include them in our definition of a “genetic sequence,” can our universe be classified as “living”?
• Makes me realize how it important it is to consider what we put on and inside of our bodies.
• Oils, sugar, water, sunlight, carbs…
• The transformation of single celled to multi-celled is observable every time conception and subsequent birth place.
• Re-contextualizes my preference for adopting and not wanting to pass on any of my genetic problems.
• I’m breaking something that was so… unbroken.
• Re-contextualizes the METAL GEAR SOLID series. 
• Re-contextualizes the realization that there’s more to life than passing on genes…. because we’ve evolved to recognize and realize things that are more important than short term spreading of genes. 
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717201837.htm (Natural Selection May Not Produce The Best Organisms)
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191044.htm (Evolution: Not Only the Fittest Survive)
• Re-contextualizes “Escaping from the Cave”  Because we did more than that… we evolved EYES.
• Our survival as a species can not be guaranteed, but our best hope is via love for each other, the life cycle, and how it works.
  
• There was more than a primordial soup that created us… but a COSMIC soup.
• What are the odds, though? Idk, but apparently there are likely billions of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way Galaxy alone…
• Re-contextualizes “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself” 
• I realize that evolution is JUST as much about cooperation as it is about competition, if not moreso.
• Considering the possibility that “we are a way for the cosmos to LOVE itself.”

(via skepticalavenger)