From Brasilia, District Federal, Brazil
Today’s episode: The Big Bang, the oceans and bacteria, our first ancestors
In the timeline that I have been tracing in this new series of articles, we have now reached 4,4 billion years, before human beings appeared on Planet Earth.
During this period, water vapor appears on Earth, because as we know, without water, that is, without the molecules of oxygen and hydrogen gases, there is no life.
The planet, which was too hot, was already producing steam, which by slowly rising and descending was in charge of gradually forming the oceans. This process gradually made that, over the next millions of years, the oceans contributed to slowly cooling Planet Earth and making it suitable for the existence of species of life.
As I think back to the millions of years it took Nature to cool the planet and also realize that in just a few millennia we’re heating everything up again, I find myself thinking how stupid we are capable of being.
Thus, with a Moon and oceans, the Earth we know today is gradually forming and paving the way for the emergence of multiple and different forms of life.
Millions of years pass in this process. Then, when we reach 3,8 billion years before humans appeared, in the oceans a real revolution begins from four chemical elements that will be the foundations of the appearance and evolution of the species: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.
These gases created by the constant stellar explosions unite to create the DNA. Yes, “deoxyribonucleic acid, the organic compound whose molecules contain the genetic instructions that coordinate the development and functioning of all living beings and some viruses, and which transmit the hereditary characteristics of each living being”.
In the DNA spirals, which “was only discovered in 1869 by the German biochemist Johann Friedrich Miescher”, and in which are the secret codes of the multiple and different forms of life we know.
Evolutionary theory and history say that 700,000 years after Planet Earth was formed and the four elementary gases, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen separated, life will appear and multiply on Earth.
For me, I see it as inevitable to poetically compare that moment of Evolutionary Theory with the moment of Creationist Theory, in which the creator puts order out of chaos, separates the elements, and populates the planet.
If you find yourself not being prejudiced by Christian literature, read it carefully. Here is the creationist and evolutionist conception under this possible moment in terrestrial time and space, with my underlines (extracted from the Book of Genesis. 1: 19 – 25):
“19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”
In the path of Evolutionary Theory and according to paleontologist Peter Ward, from the University of Washington, the original form of life is bacteria. It is from her that we are all descendants, and to her, we all return, while by them, we are devoured at every moment of our existence, even when we die, we rot (in burials and not in cremation) and by them, we are devoured in the perennial feedback cycle of the species.
Surely we should all be more humble. When I see a person proud of their status, money, or knowledge, I know they are made up of a mass of energy and bacteria. Each animal has more bacteria living in its body than the number of people living on Planet Earth. So, oh bacteria, why are you so haughty?
This is why, when thinking about political corruption with public goods, money that after so many taxpayers’ efforts should be channeled towards a minimum of social dignity that allows them to be supported by a free or accessible shared health system, education for the development of the body and spirit, transport, housing, etc., I find it difficult to accept the bestiality that makes us humanize things and thingify humans.
To be continued…
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