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Thoughts on my Thoughts II
The TALES That Wagged This Veterinarian
It is a common theme in many books and films
When people get lost in a desert or a jungle and try to walk in a straight line, they end up walking in circles. No matter how hard they try, at some point they will cross their own tracks and despair, because they realize that they will never make it back to civilization. Surprisingly enough, the belief that people walk in circles when lost is mainly based on anecdotal evidence and has never been studied systematically in a real desert or forest.
Scientists have now presented the first empirical evidence
That people can’t walk in a straight line and really do walk in circles when they do not have reliable cues to their walking direction.
It turned out that these circles were rarely in a systematic direction
Instead, the same person sometimes veered to the left, sometimes to the right. Walking in circles is therefore not caused by differences in leg length or strength, but more likely the result of increasing uncertainty about where straight ahead is.
Thinking about walking in circles and trying to walk a straight line
Even with all the volumes of information we have accumulated about how life began, we still find ourselves getting lost and turning in circles trying to solve one of science's greatest outstanding mysteries. Even the individual pathways in metabolism are intricate. It is hard to imagine how such an intricate process could have started by itself.
Complicating things further
Each step is controlled by a molecule called an enzyme, which speeds up the chemical reactions in question. Enzymes are complicated molecules that can only be made through metabolism, under the control of genes.
So, scientists face a biochemical chicken-or-the-egg dilemma
Which came first, the chemical engine to build the cell, or the cellular mechanisms needed to build the engine?
In the quest for finding certainty in our pursuit for truth and understanding
It seems to me good counsel to consider what is written in 1 Kings 19:11-12. The Lord is not found in the strong winds, disasters, earthquakes or fire. After all is done, His answer will be found in a still small voice.
