The more I looked at this book on evolution and tried to understand the meaning of everything, the clearer it became that all forms of life as we know it, including the earth and the stars, are all some how very naturally interconnected. This may seem like 'Common Sense 101' to the reader, but hey, we all have to start somewhere. They drill you in the army that the only dumb question is the one that's never asked. I guess it must have stuck with me... I think it's interesting how everything does seem to be connected in a very intimate sort of way, when at the same time, there is such a large gap between the creativeness of an animal and the thinking ability of a human. I'm not convinced that an ape man is the missing piece of the interconnecting puzzle. It looks to me like there's a very clear distinction between the two. Whatever the case may be, I don't have any reason to disagree with the findings, as long as there is sufficient empirical data making it understandable.
When looking at the surface of the earth and it's plant life, especially the vegetables that grow out of the ground, it was easy to see that they all have similarities. When looking at the inside of a carrot, you see layers of growth. When you look at the cross section of an onion, you see several layers. The way to determine the age of a tree is by counting its layers. When you look at the inside of a squash, you see a lot of seeds, just like on the inside of a tomato. To me, the seeds resemble the stars in outer space. A tomato is like a whole universe. The main thought in the scheme of things is that all forms of plant life originate from the ground. Even though plants receive a lot of nourishment from the sun which is from above, the foundation, or roots of a plant grow from a seed that is planted into the earth's soil. Following this same line of thinking, my next question was, if everything comes from the ground, where does the ground come from??
I'm not sure what the writers of the text book were trying to imply, but the book had several cross section, geological pictures illustrating the various layers of the earth as it had developed over the years, millions of years. Looking at the pictures were more thought provoking than what the written chapters of the book had to say. These layers, which I believe represent different periods of time and growth, are not unlike the layers found in most living things that grow from the surface of the earth. The obvious similarities have led me to believe that the earth, like every other living thing that comes from it, is alive and growing, forming layer upon layer upon layer... I don't think I can be very far off with this line of thinking. It all seemed pretty self explanatory to me, but for some reason, there wasn't anything written in the chapters of the book making the same observation. It was like they gave you some basic information and you were supposed to put it all together yourself...
Anyway, I felt like I was finally getting somewhere. Prior to this, I really wasn't sure what the earth was all about. After reaching the conclusion that everything was alive and growing, it was simply just a matter of going down through the layers to know what it was like in the beginning. It was comforting to know that the earth was alive and not just some kind of static particle floating around in outer space. Most of this stuff seemed so elementary that I was surprised that I couldn't find any other literature making the same point. Anyway, it's withstood the test of time with me and I can't see how things could be any different....
If you think it through, and trace the layers down from the surface of the earth, it seems obvious to me that after going down through the layers, the earth is reduced to a point in the middle, or to a point at the beginning, where the earth began to grow. I believe that in the beginning, the earth was just a particle of energy. It may have been an atom, or a molecule, or just a positive charge of energy in order for it to be able to grow. If you look at our planet as in all other planets, it has a north pole and a south pole. That means that it has polar opposites, not just a positive or a negative, but both. If you take a compass and set it on the equator which represents the middle of the earth, it will just spin around and not know which way to point. If you place a compass south of the equator it will point south, towards the magnetic south, just as it will point north if it is north of the equator. Therefore, there are two forces of energy at work, not just one. Somehow, in addition to the first particle of energy, there needed to be added a second particle of energy in order for our wonderful planet to be able to grow to what it is now. Could it be that the substance of our planet simply consists of male and female, like most other forms of life coming from it?? There are only a couple of exceptions to male female reproduction on our planet. Blue green algae is one...
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