The Meaning of Life

Thoughts

Ever since Man has had the time and capacity to look far into his existence he has wondered about things like meaning and purpose. He needs to know what drives the world inside and around him. Many have had this need to know but no desire to search for the answers in depth. The easiest explanation for them has been that the world is impossible for their minds to fully comprehend. Therefore, they created fantasies for themselves that explained everything. At first, it is not that they refused to look at the world fully, but that they had little or no resources to do so. As civilizations progressed, though, people were been able to dedicate themselves to looking at the world in a secular way. Science and the Scientific Method were created. The revolutionary thinkers that pioneered science told others that they were also capable of having a secular view point. At last people began to be discontent with simple explanations of the world. They started to look at things more and more logically.

In the twenty-first century, speculation is an excepted and loved power of the human mind. Minds that are open and logical make great progress for our species. In this atmosphere of progressive thought, a young mind is free to explore things like meaning and purpose. Many are unclouded by superstition and use their human logic to paint independent pictures of understanding. This essay will be a detailed look at one of these paintings. This picture has been evolving for fifteen years, and has just now reached its pinnacle of revelation. It is a collection of thoughts about life from the mind of Michael Stemkovski.

The Basics

To understand the world at large, one has to have an understanding of the primary units that make up the world. In the case of our universe, atoms are the basics of all matter. Matter makes up everything, including the organic molecules you are composed of. Now you have to understand that your body consists of the very same protons, neutrons, and electrons as the paper this essay is printed on. When looking at the basics, you are no different from the paper. The molecules are arranged differently in your body, and that is what gives you the shape and properties you have.

What is life? That is the question that the earliest intellectual humans have asked themselves. The key characteristic for life is the ability to reproduce. Today, the accepted form of life has four basic kinds of molecules: Carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins. Today’s cell contains all four of these molecules. Of those four, nucleic acids and proteins are the primary and original molecules. How was life created? This is another question that has been asked regularly. The answer can be found easily! All you need to do is look back at the basics of all matter. All that needs to happen in order to create life is for the molecules to arrange themselves so as to make a reproducing object. At first glance, This arrangement can seem impossible to just happen without the aid of something supernatural, but it is actually less complicated than it seems. Nucleic acids, when given the proper enzymes, are able to replicate by themselves. From that point onward they have a method of passing down information a theoretically infinite amount of times. What you need to remember is that life is not something special and mystical. It is just another combination of matter, just like the paper. The creation of the first life was just a matter of coincidence. The biomolecules had billions of years of chaotic movement to arrange themselves by chance into the reproducing body.