Evolution – driving force behind life

Everything that surrounds you is a product of the evolution. Some people attribute the uniqueness and beauty of nature to other forces. Hardly anyone thinks that every single human sense is a result of a long process of developing. As beings, still in time, we can’t see the ocean of life that alters and boils around us. Therefore we take it for granted.

The Greek philosopher Tales predicted, that life had emerged in water. Water, as a symbol of ever changing and birth giving power is maybe the closest comparison to what we call evolution. Today we take this process as natural and don’t doubt it as we don’t in the laws of physics. But just three centuries ago, scientists like Jean-Baptiste la Marck and Carl Linnaeus classified thousands of species, wondering why they are so different and at the same time what’s common between them.

I’m not talking of life as a condensation of proteins and amino acids, but as a most perfect product of the evolution. It is difficult to explain the birth of even the most basic organisms as an imminent event. Sometimes one cell, bearing life, sets in motion process, which can create powerful tools such as human mind and intellect. The mould for example, in its simplicity can survive extreme conditions, such as existence in the outer space, remaining unharmed by the outrageous temperatures and the lack of oxygen.

In order to understand the essence of evolution we should just have a glimpse at the ladybird sitting on the frame of the window. It may look insignificant just like any bug, but it could have become the new homo sapiens if it had evolved in a different way billions of years ago.

Here’s when the art of evolution takes place - It had put this ladybird in its determined place in nature, keeping it unaltered, in order to give an opportunity to humans to make their way through. Realizing this, we should avoid becoming the “dinosaurs” of our era – so sure about our existence but incapable of avoiding a sudden catastrophe that can wipe us out from the face of the Earth and take our lives the same way it had granted them to us.

Human mind can hardly grasp all events and periods in the rich history of the world. Just like a simple grain of sand can’t know all other grains in the pile. But as a part of the whole it doesn’t have to see every single element in order to have vision of what it belongs to. A brilliant example for this is “The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection” by Charles Darwin.

It’s said that life is a miracle and it has magical substance, more powerful that anything we know. Then what’s evolution? It’s difficult to say whether it is the mother of life or exists only as its catalyst. In both cases thanks to exactly this continuous process of developing, life is so eclectic and beautiful.

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