Monday, November 9, 2009

Biology is amazing for a reason

I may complain about class stuff and having to memorize lots of crap but it is very amazing. Every single time we have a class in immunology or biology I'm always astounded at how things work. For instance, on my last test we were learning about the electron transport chain; essentially chloroplasts and mitochondria use high energy electrons to pump protons against their gradients and then use the energy generated by the proton gradient to make ATP using the F0F1 ATP synthase.


Our bodies, our world, they're so efficient and so perfect for what they do. I can't believe there aren't exponentially more individuals with diseases, seeing as there are infinitely many ways our bodies could be screwed up. What scientist could look at the glorious things we have evolved into and not think that there was someone guiding it, someone who planned it all out? How could more than 30 proteins miraculously come together independently to form nuclear pore complexes that allow transport into the nuclei of our cells? Everything our cells do is for a bigger purpose, and I just can't believe it happened by accident. And I'm not saying we didn't evolve, you'd have to be majorly delusional to just flat-out ignore all of the evidence supporting our evolution from prior species, but I'm just saying that it's all so amazing and it seems to me that the odds we just accidentally happened are astronomical.


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