Food. Extras page 4 of 4

Life needs food. It comes in varieties. If anything needs understanding about life , it is food. In some way food could be considered to have occurred before life.
Take trees and plants that sort of eat the carbon that is in the air using photosynthesis to form themselves and their fruits that are in turn eaten by animals. Those animals are then eaten by other animals and so on.

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The green leaves in the carrot plant soak up carbon from the air and with the aid of sunlight and water the carrot is formed. In normal thinking about how it is the way it is , we would stop short of saying that that whole happening of a carrot has evolved to be what it happens to be. But because the word evolution is so pervasive we would have to think that the existence of the carrot evolved.

It gets bizarre though. The carrot is a root. It doesn’t make other carrots and isn’t a seed and doesn’t have seeds in it. It is a part of what we call a root vegetable. It seems that it’s purpose is to support the the plant above it , but the purpose , if there is any , could be the other way round and that the green plant means to produce the carrot to support itself. But either way , it is hard to think about how to think about it.
One thing to go on though , is that the carrot and all of it’s plant are edible. That might mean that they are a food for animals. But that wouldn’t account for how any animal would have the digestion system that is able to digest the carrot without knowing that the carrot existed. Of course though an animals digestion system could digest all sorts of food and wouldn’t have to just exist to eat only carrots. But a digestion system would in some way have to exist to know how to digest the available food.

So on food , how is it that life has been able to sustain itself on food for 500 million years and is still doing so today and how does that food keep coming and coming. There isn’t as far as we know , anything coming from outer space apart from sunlight and so the food that exists is sort of available again itself after whatever has eaten it in the past. Problem with that though is that the food eaten by an animal is thought to be converted to a sort of energy to give the thinking and ability to move the body. But there is of course the fact that not all of the food that is eaten is converted into energy and so most of it goes back into the soil. And only a tiny bit of that food is needed to provide energy , after all , an atomic bomb that splits single atoms , unleashes an immense amount of energy.
However it happens , the food keeps coming and life is sustained. Not everywhere of course , as there are droughts and other poor earth conditions. But in keeping with the main theme , what evidence is there to show how this wholeness evolved. There is none.

There is the sun , there is the planet , there is water , there is gravity.
And then we say a silly thing like the animal and carrots have had to evolve in all of that , relying on natural selection and random mutations to produce seeing and hearing and feeling and produce the carrot and it’s colour of orange.
Then there is getting the body weight of a carrot or any animal that eats them to settle in the earths gravity to sit firmly to the earths surface. Getting that wrong would lead to either of them floating away or be squashed. Given that the animal somehow does manage to crawl or walk in the earths gravity and the carrot likewise settles nicely under a bit of soil , both themselves would have to get their weight right , otherwise it would have to be that gravity is more in charge and in some way makes things right to hold the animal and carrot nicely to the earths surface.

Quite why we have to think about all of this , is as baffling as the actual happenings that we think about. We don’t even know if our thinking about it is set like concrete and the thoughts about what we think is happening are just the thoughts that we can have, or is something different and our thoughts are unique.
But, if we are using what we think as common sense thinking and that thinking does have a real relevance , we would not think that a carrot or a nose or a pair of legs had to evolve to become what they are. We would wonder what they were before they became a carrot or a nose or a pair of legs. Our thinking about it could be right or wrong , but in a common sense way , we would have to think that the carrot would have to know about soil and the nose would have to know about smells and the legs would have to have someway of knowing how to move. And all would have to know how to get to be what they are before they started to evolve to be what they become. It would go on and on of course because we’d have to use our thinking next and wonder why the carrot would want to become a carrot and why the nose would want to become a nose and why the legs would want to become legs etc.

However it happens though , the carrot and the nose and legs would have to get it right from the start. There couldn’t be somewhere in their evolving , if they evolved , where it went wrong. And that is the case for everything that exists. Carrots and noses and pairs of legs don’t go wrong.
Are they all self evolving , or do they have the phenomena of themselves that makes them be. That is , are all of the individual parts of either the carrot plant or any animal body making themselves to fit in an environment because of phenomena. That seems more likely than that they evolved. But then the phenomena would have to explained and the phenomena of the phenomena etc. No idea.

The simplest to think about might be a pair of legs. Say we say that they evolved, and then think about how they evolved , we would not get anywhere. But we do say that animals evolved and that that the carrot also evolved.
All of these animals with different body plans and all of the different plants with their setups do exist in different environments, but there is no evidence to show that they evolved to live in those different environments. Carrots appear in their environment and worms appear in theirs , and legs are on the end of animals. There is just no evidence of them all having to evolve to be what they are and do what they do.
Just seems , that if they didn’t evolve then they somehow occur in a whole state.
That is what all of the evidence actually shows.

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