Why Do Trees, Frogs and People ExistWritten by Tom Horn
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protoplasm turned themselves into recognizable living things. The whole trend towards increasingly complex pattern and structure is said to have occurred through mechanisms of ‘the survival of fittest’ and ‘cumulative natural selection’. Let’s join evolutionary chain at some arbitrary point. A gene within an animal suddenly mutates. It is a chance event that may have changed an ear or an eye or a leg. The change may have improved chances of survival for that animal. This being case, genetic mutation would be passed on to offspring and they too would be better equipped to survive. Those without genetic modification would tend to become extinct. Further chance genetic mutations may occur and those that furthered survival advantages would be added to those that had gone before. So here we are today with a complex bodily structure attributable to sum of uncountable chance mutations within our ancestors. Without these random mutations, I would still be a blob of protoplasm, possibly dreaming of a future time when I could write computer articles. So evolutionary theory makes our existence all very explainable – provided you sweep ‘time’ under carpet. If you could liken history of everything to one hour, then living things have been in existence for some seconds only. Would there have been enough time for random genetic mutations to add up from protoplasmic formlessness to our complex bodies? Well, I’ve heard it said that a sober monkey tapping randomly at a typewriter would eventually produce complete works of Shakespeare, provided bits of matching type were added to previous bits. However, we know that whole process would take longer than age of universe. Since we are more complex than works of Shakespeare, I think we can safely say that there would not have been enough time for evolutionary theory to be sole explanation for complex living structures. We are left with unavoidable conclusion that parts of world of everyday life are unexplainable, unknowable. The fact of trees, frogs and people is surprising and will remain so.
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Now Goldilocks is a loner. She has no teachers or mother to infect her with one-sided ideas of right and wrong and ‘imperfect knowledge’ of world. Goldie does not wear a ‘Red Hood’, but instead her golden curls are emphasized – a symbol of her independent spirit. Her view of life does not lead to over-the-top responses and so, for her, road does not turn ‘crooked’. She is on ‘straight way’ through life and therefore does not meet wolf and is not tempted into further one-sidedness. So, at any given moment, even though she is in ‘forest’ of living trends, Goldie is not available to any of them. When she is in cottage of three bears, she does have ‘imperfect knowledge’ of danger she is in, but is saved by her own acts of ‘power’. She tries all chairs and all bowls of porridge and all beds to find what is ‘just right’ for her. By exercising a sober choice or personal preference, she ‘taps world lightly’ and never goes beyond what is ‘just enough’. Therefore when bears return she has ‘power’ or ‘luck’ to escape. In contrast, Red Riding Hood was gripped by a second-hand desire to do good works and she indulged it to full. She was a driven person who committed no acts of ‘power’. Therefore, she was eaten. So you can see that life is not best served by learning right from wrong. Those things take care of themselves when life becomes a practical matter of uncommon knowledge and ‘power’. When it comes to crunch in life, you succeed or fail, live or die, depending on how much ‘power you have in bank’. How much do you have? How much ‘treasure in heaven’ have you accrued through your own acts of ‘power’? Or is your imperfect knowledge of world and one-sided responses making you available to living trends? Is a ‘wolf’ stalking you and, through cross infection of your world-view, is he pursuing any of your loved ones right now? This would be a wolf, not in ‘sheep’s clothing’, but in ‘granny’s clothes’. You’ll know he’s got to you when you find yourself thinking those self-righteous, judgematic thoughts about right and wrong that have been passed down generations like a virus and which always propel you beyond what is just enough. If this wolf in ‘granny’s clothes’ is on your trail, he will tempt all of you in turn and then steal your most valuable possession, which is your ‘power’ to generate nice surprises.
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