Are you abiogenesis or biogenesis?
First day at uni 2012, spent 8 hours on campus, possibly a new record.After 5 hours of law (prep for tutorial, actual tutorial then THREE lectures in a row, clearly the right to lunch breaks expired when I hit higher education) I did some preparation for the society I’m president of (philosophy, of course), our first meeting this term is going to be based on extreme religions
After searching in google for extremists views on evolution (Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovas Witnesses etc) I accidentally came across a page about abiogenesis and biogenesis, and because I’m a geek I looked it up
Biogenesis is when living things come from other living things. In aristotlian terms, this means bees come from flowers and maggots come from dead animal flesh, however in modern science this relates to evolution.
Abiogenesis is when living things occur from inorganic matter. A series of experiments have shown this to happen on a miniature scale in controlled conditions. A series of chemicals of course are required, but nothing too complex, and suddenly amino acids form, and prokaryotes appear
In my constant need to compartmentalise, I wonder if this can relate to people. Biogenesis people just make things happen with what they’re given. Abiogenesis people, however, can make something happen out of nothing, taking chances, being slightly unpredictable, but with a little chaos and some enigmatic logic, make a lot of progress.
Are you biogenesis or abiogenesis? Or worse still, (since after all, I was meant to be researching religion) just Genesis, needing age-old symbolism, just trying to be a good person and hoping everything will fall in to place, some day, at some point, probably during the End Times, which, incidentally, Jehovas Witnesses believe began at 1914.
If the end is already here, what are you waiting for?
