The debate here on earth, goes on and on about when a
human embryo is to be considered a "life". Space
scientists are very busy, probing Mars and other planets,
looking for evidence of "life". It is sufficient for them to
call any biological or alien organism life - even a single cell. If they were to find
a simple one-cell microbe or of a plant, it
would be considered a very significant discovery.
There is a different way of looking at life by the military merchants of death. North Korea, Iran, Russia and China are amassing the tools of war. Their goal
is the destruction and the extinguishing of human life. Every individual human has about 50 Trillion assembled cells.
If a single cell is considered to be life, then why is there
so much controversy here on earth - about what
constitutes life. Biologists, theologians and laymen
continue to debate this emotionally charged issue. The
pro-life and pro-abortion people are constantly at war
over when life begins.
I say that all of these groups who are intent on arguing
about when life begins and those killer nations who are deciding when it should end - need to
do more study. I have a challenge for them.
Whether it is the people who are
exploring the planets, the leaders of nations who
threaten us or those who are engaged in the pro-life/pro-abortion controversy, Before any of them decide to kill anybody else, I say that
they should first be able to study and explain a simple, single living human cell, since the scientists consider a single
cell to be "life".
Let's look at a very curious cell.
A good one to study is the single cell called a spirochete,
the male reproductive cell. A powerful microscope will
be needed because we're talking about a really tiny
organism. Being a living cell, it is able to do all the things
that any other living organism can do. It is born, it feeds,
it does work, it is capable of locomotion, it eliminates
waste, and it reproduces. All of that is going on in only a
single cell! As Frank Sinatra would say, "That's Life!"
Those who are pondering the question of when exactly
does a human life begin should look closely at this single
cell.
This little cell has a
tail that it uses to propel itself. Where's it going? Using
its tail, it swims forward toward a destination, one that
it can't know about, but, somehow it does know.
How does it know what to do? It doesn't appear to have a
"brain", but it knows how to do a lot of "thinking"
things. Did it go to some kind of school? Where does it
get the magical invisible force that powers it's tail? How
does it know how to wiggle it just the right way for
swimming? Did its Dad teach it to swim? Does it have a
sense of touch to feel when it is bumping into stuff and
then be able to turn away?
If they do eventually find life in a single cell on an alien
planet, I hope that they will also figure out just what it
uses as an energy source. Is there a battery - a motor?
Where's the brain that tells it what to do? How did this
little cell get so perfectly engineered?
I'm sure that the threats to human life from our enemies
will continue. The controversy with the abortion debate will
go on. And the scientists will keeping looking for life on
far away planets.
They should feed all of the knowledge they can learn about this one little cell into the world's largest and fastest
computer, IBM's "Watson". Given enough data, maybe
then, they will be able to answer the question "what is
life and when does it begin"? My guess is that even the most powerful computer in the world will say it needs to have
more data. So, until we can at least figure out one little
cell, stop the killing!
