I watched a program about a group of scientists who are taking samples of water from all the oceans around the world.
It's called the Ocean Genome Voyage
They are trying to collect and identify DNA from the smallest of creatures, some microscopic. There is already information on most sea life, but only three or four types of microscopic life in the ocean has had its DNA documented. In their search, they have identified more than 1,800 new microscopic creatures. I can't tell you about all the technical stuff involving how they will go about mapping out the DNA of all these new found creatures, it's a subject all in itself. But, as I watched them talking about how individual strands of DNA from these new found creatures shared the same bits of information with all life, I felt sort of "at one" with everything.
I am not a religious person, but I am a spiritual person. Spiritual in the sense that I believe everything is connected by some type of energy. I just don't believe in a superior being. But I do believe that everything in the universe is all connected. I don't know, maybe you could argue that nature, and science IS my religion....
I only bring this up because I think it's time for people to start looking at the world through different eyes.
When you think for example, that because of this project in the ocean, (just to identify DNA of life there) which then inadvertently "stumbles upon" 7,000 new creatures, you can't help but think that if there are that many creatures we didn't know about.... right here in our oceans, right here on our tiny planet... what other life must exist in the universe!
For me, all religion goes out the window with that kind of realization. We share the same bits of DNA with microscopic life... period. Microscopic life that has NO RELIGION. But yet we are connected.... pretty cool huh?
It's called the Ocean Genome Voyage
They are trying to collect and identify DNA from the smallest of creatures, some microscopic. There is already information on most sea life, but only three or four types of microscopic life in the ocean has had its DNA documented. In their search, they have identified more than 1,800 new microscopic creatures. I can't tell you about all the technical stuff involving how they will go about mapping out the DNA of all these new found creatures, it's a subject all in itself. But, as I watched them talking about how individual strands of DNA from these new found creatures shared the same bits of information with all life, I felt sort of "at one" with everything.
I am not a religious person, but I am a spiritual person. Spiritual in the sense that I believe everything is connected by some type of energy. I just don't believe in a superior being. But I do believe that everything in the universe is all connected. I don't know, maybe you could argue that nature, and science IS my religion....
I only bring this up because I think it's time for people to start looking at the world through different eyes.
When you think for example, that because of this project in the ocean, (just to identify DNA of life there) which then inadvertently "stumbles upon" 7,000 new creatures, you can't help but think that if there are that many creatures we didn't know about.... right here in our oceans, right here on our tiny planet... what other life must exist in the universe!
For me, all religion goes out the window with that kind of realization. We share the same bits of DNA with microscopic life... period. Microscopic life that has NO RELIGION. But yet we are connected.... pretty cool huh?
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