Life, God

God is the answer to creation. God furnishes an answer for a being's sudden self-regard and the abyssal terror of the ambiguity to its origin. The story of God bridges that abyss. But in this sense God is both the absent cause and the story we tell to explain origins. God is, in fact, 'God.' God the subject. God the predicate. God the sentence. God the primary cause behind the motion in the universe. The primordial subject from which all action derives is God in the narrative cosmology of human beings. And this is the reason behind 'God.' 'God' must be spoken.

Life is a self-replicating system living within an environment from which it takes molecules that this system can use to sustain its existence. Survival, in situ, is a penultimate behavioral trait of life. The ultimate 'behavior of life,' its bookends, is the ability to replicate through time. Every enclosed system making up life, the cell, carries this capability deep within its nucleus in chains of proteins that serve as the information for survival and replication.

At this basic level let us stand in amazement at the very notion of a molecule, made up of atoms with certain affinities for attraction and repelling becoming a self-replicating molecular mechanism. Already at this level, the simplest of arrangements, based in the constituent 'stuff' of this universe, appears to have a motivation, an impetus toward living. And living, in its most fundamental sense, is avoiding the inevitability of a coherent system fall apart. At this level, the nuclear material of a cell, offers a blueprint for replication, repair, and survival.

The one addition to earth and to the living systems that emerged on it, which cannot be ignored, is the sun. The sun provides warmth and light, two properties that living systems have evolved to appropriate. Plants use the action of photons to  produce sugar. Living creatures capture photons in light sensitive membrane extensions of their nervous system to perceive the world around them. The eye and the chloroplast are but two adaptations to a world bathed in the radiant heat and light of a nearby sun. From that light, life springs forth.