Apples and Organisms

Well here's something I've been thinking about for a few days now.

Think of an apple resting alone in front of you. It's a relatively medium size object. You begin to perceive it easily with your senses. It has little brown spots that are almost unseen due to the overwhelming redness of it. You recognize the shape, with broadened shoulders, a dimpled neck, and a narrowed waist with little lumps for legs supporting it upright. The stem leans outwards from the top at a predictable yet iconic angle.

Your mind begins to think beyond the skin and sees into the watery yellowed insides. You think of the firmness and crunchiness of the fleshy sweetness that is hidden behind the coat of red. Even deeper inside the color tints to green as the textures become thicker and structural. At the core you now perceive the seeds laid out around the core surrounded by the thick layer of delicious sugars and nutrients.

Apples present their treats and treasures to the wilds of nature at a great cost but for the ultimate reward. Those organisms that would consume the apple for nutrition uncover and disperse the hidden purpose of the apple - the seeds.

Why do apples exist? How can nature account for spending so much energy and resources creating a fruit? The answer is found in the true purpose of the apple - the seeds. Everything depends on the seeds.

I find myself thinking very much about apples.

It seems to me that all organisms are much like apples carrying the seeds of our genetic material. The complexity of all that life and all the intricacies and luxuries of our bodies are all just a vessel for our genetic material. We are just living vehicles piloted by the seeds from which we came. From a single celled organism to the complex assemblage of cells and organisms that account for human beings - all life is just fleshy packets of incentives for dispersing genetic material. More easily can seeds disperse if apples had flagella, eye spots, fins, legs, wings, sailboats, or jet planes.

Truly amazing are these seeds!

Why do apples exist? Seeds of course - the creators and cause of all apples!

Why do seeds exist? Why does DNA and RNA and genetic ancestors exist? Why did the origin of all life on Earth come to be? The answer to why comes from an elaborate, accurate, and exhaustive how.

Cheers,

LORD RAVEN
LORD OF THE SKIES