Life is Unique

Life is made from very few building blocks, mainly because we are all related on Earth and come from the same common origin. Over the years, ancestors pass the same building blocks down from generation to generation. Life is what distinguishes organic matter from inorganic matter – in my opinion, a human being from a rock. Life separates things that can think for themselves, reproduce, and change from inorganic matter. In my opinion, I do not think life is special. In the Oxford English Dictionary, special is defined as “better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual,” but my question is – who defines what is “usual”?

My definition of usual is different from what Johnny thinks is usual. Everyone has his or her own opinions. I think that life is more unique than “special”. Unique is defined as, “being the one and only of its kind.” No one in the world is the exact same as anyone else. Everyone has their own look, personality, point of view, bias, and individual characteristics that distinguish them from another person. The word “special” may insinuate that the human race is different, but what is it different from? How does it differ? There is no other “living” thing to compare the human civilization to. In my opinion, everyone has certain characteristics that identify him or her from another person, these characteristics might be similar to those of another person, but are not exact. Everyone has different views and opinions which makes up the person you are, from the outside appearance to the internal process of thought – everyone is different and unique in their own way.

What is the Definition of Life

There is only four main building blocks for life. These building blocks are lipids, amino acid, proteins and nucleotides. Why so few parts to something so complicated? Maybe so that it can function smoothly and less dependant. Keeping it simple wit the fewest moving parts is sometimes the best way to go in engineering.

My definition of life is not having a soul or anything like that because plants do not have souls. In that case, life is defined by RNA and DNA. If it contains one of the two, it is alive. Is that life special? Yes, in some degree. Life is made up of these building blocks, but these building blocks are not life when separated. These building blocks have been found on meteorites, but no life has been found on meteorites. I think of it this way. A planet could be absolutely covered in these building blocks, but nothing is going to, or ever will, happen. Why? Because it’s like a bunch of legos spread out across the floor. Somebody has to put them together to make a yoda figurine. Telling me that everything just came together to make life is like telling me that if I sit in a room full of legos, they will eventually build themselves. And on top of that, not only build themselves, but make a complex biological machine that has intellect and can reproduce. Sure, this can happen with almost the same odds as me walking through a wall, but is it not just as if not less ridiculous to believe in a creator? No, that is a ridiculous idea that a being actually put those legos together. The only realistic idea is that they magically built themselves. I do not believe that.

Yes, believing in an eternal being that created everything with his voice is farfetched, but so is this theory of creation. In fact, I think creationism is easier to believe. No I do not believe humans were riding dinosaurs, but there are things about creationism that might not be accurate taking in account that a human wrote it (like the idea of the timeline in which God created things). To further my case, if you were walking down the road and you saw a golden, decorated clock. You would look at the clock and wonder who had created such a sophisticated machine. It would never cross your mind that it would build itself even though all of the elements that the watch consisted of are all right under your feet. The watch, of course without a doubt, must have a creator. On the other hand, if you were walking down the street and saw a rock, you would think nothing of it. The rock is also a sophisticated piece of grouped atoms and bonded molecules to create a hard substance, but it without a doubt does not have a creator; it built itself. Now when you look at another human, you see a super sophisticated energy absorbing, changing, reproducing, thinking, pumping, intellectual biological machine and say that that does not have a creator? It is much more sophisticated than the watch but still, it must have formed by itself. I do not understand this way of thinking when the beginnings of this world are just as dark, if not more, in science as it is in Christianity or any other religion or creation story. Science is of course a tool in understanding how things work and what is happening around us, but when it comes to creation and, we are equally lost, and we will always be. A watch, in its raw material before the watch maker puts it together is not special. Life, in its basic building blocks, is not special. Only when it is intelligently put together does it become special.