Article Contributed on: 9/27/2008 10:24:31 PM
To be able to explain how our body functions and works, a person needs to understand the systems at work in our body and how they got there in the first place. Chemical reactions are the lifeline of the body system. Our brain as well as our nerves down to the bacteria that help digest our food. Looking at a simple organism like the bacteria you have to wonder how an organism took shape in the beginnings of things.
Take a look at the periodic table. When you look you can recognize a few names and maybe even connect a couple dots to make a compound. But it doesn't stop there. Once a compound is made, it is broken down and rebuilt just like the Rocky Mountains have done in the past. Occasionally, the compounds will start giving off energy and all sorts of excess stuff that enables more chemical reactions. In the right conditions, this will enable for a body to developa sustainable but ever changing compound. This would then start developing proteins and things that are required for what we call "life", or a single celled organism. As these organisms develop into single celled organisms, these single celled organisms began to feed off of each other. This developed communities like the cities we live in. Each cell contributes to this now newly formed community. These communities now start to look like fungus or anyother type of simple multicellular organism. Sponge are another good example. After this, evolution continues and begins to look like what you'll see from the darwin theorists as cavemen, which are precursures to the humans.
Then if you look at what humans need to survive off of: plants and other animals. We then can look it as if we are now part of a bigger living organism we call mother earth. But for Mother Earth to be able to provide to its commodities (us), She then now has to make sure that she continues a steady spin and path that gives us the correct amount of energy from the sun. Not too little or not too much. So, then the sun is spinning as well and is rotating around the black hole at the middle of this galaxy.
Then the question to you is, what are we living, if we are at all? It seems to me that humans are part of a bigger mammal, the universe. But what if we aren't the only universe as suspected. Multiverse? Damn, this is getting out of hand.