Friday, December 20, 2019

LOL I’m a dud

I chuckled out loud to myself tonight while washing dishes. The thought occurred to me that, from an evolutionary perspective, I’m a complete dead end. Disappointing but anticipated, like that one steamed clam that doesn't open, we accept that some paths simply  lead nowhere.
I think evolution probably tosses out far more duds than it does winners. Given even the rudimentary road map that we currently have of the human genome, my mind spins at the total possible combinations of all that data. I have to think that the house usually wins, and that evolution gambles on innumerable variations before finding anything significant enough to catch on.
I broke the chain that, as the sole offspring of my two parents, only I could have continued. I’m also an only grandchild on my mother’s side, so my progeny would have been the Hail Mary pass for much of the family recipe to squeak through. I wonder what percentage of women in the world will spend their lives (assuming they have some kind of life) never having borne or raised a child.
I once heard someone say that this was actually the original definition of the word we now understand as “virgin,” but I digress.
That code is like God’s blueprint. 
Man might be able to glimpse the script but I doubt he will ever fully comprehend it.

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