Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Cells Marching On


By what magic does the single cell divide in two?  How do two viable cells become twelve-thousand in a common scheme?  And then, how do some cells gallop off into a flow of blood while others gather as the liver?  How does function come to form?  How arrives the decision that marshals some cells to march off and become toenails while their neighbors march off to become the brain?  Why species?
Darwinian theorists are now concluding that evolution—regressing all the back to the very spark that lighted the fires of life, to the simplest form of what we call life—might be based upon blind errors, the mis-combining of things already at hand.  So, in grossly oversimplified terms, we have over the years walked forth from the simplest crystals of clay in a warm bath.
Once the first “true” forms of life came into being, the process became increasingly divergent.  Through RNA and subsequent DNA reproductions, basic accounting mistakes and copying errors were made and then introduced into the next generation of plant or beast.  In other words, certain genetic codes were botched prior to handing them down through replication.  Some of these mistakes made by combinate RNA and DNA became, by default, corrections and improvements.  Genetically coded bumps on one beast gradually became arms; on another: fins.  From oddity to improvement.  These random improvements (and the life forms enjoying them) found success in practice, became accepted.  The random improvements then clustered into certain locals, into species.
Consider this: In this operating theory, to err is to improve.
— Mitchell Hegman


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