Remarkable About Evolution

What Is Remarkable About Evolution?

By Roy D. Follendore III

June 4, 2002

What is so remarkable about the concept of evolution? Is it that a higher organized animal can come into existence from a lower organism? I don't think so. I think that what is most remarkable is that organisms exist. It is far more amazing to think that what is inert matter, somehow comes together in the most complex of ways to form life that can evolve at all. The existence of life itself is a miraculous event. The creation of intelligence, even in its lowest forms, is a miraculous event. It is as fundamental as the differentiation of matter and energy.

If life exists in places other than Earth, then the evolution of life must be as natural as the evolution of matter. If this is so, then two questions arise. The first question is a matter that the Science of Physics has centered upon. From where did matter arise? The second question is much closer to the concept of evolution. Is life a necessary byproduct of matter?

If life does universally arise from the inevitable complex interactions of matter, then all life is far closer to the essence of the Universe than man has ever thought. Obviously God did not make life as an afterthought. That idea is wonderful. On the other hand, if life is unique to the Earth, then all life, including the lowest forms, is far more precious than we could ever imagine. Either answer changes the fundamental nature of mankind.

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