It is only human to question our origin. Man will stop at nothing to be able to understand what he cannot comprehend. We try to seek the answers in everything that surrounds us. We consider all the possibilities. The desire to know about how life started is unyielding. Scientists and experts have been seeking for the answers for so long now. And then the idea came, where would be a better place to start looking than within us?
We are all composed of the same things – cells, cells that contain its unique DNA. It is ironic to say that we are made up of the same things but at the same time, we are unique. As crazy as that might sound, it is true. DNA is composed of substances that define our characteristics. It’s just a way of saying that we all possess something innately special. We all have something to contribute that others don’t have.
Cells go through different processes like replication. Just like these things, we also go through different processes and stages to be able to grow and develop. These processes all take place in response to the things around us. As certain conditions change, our systems adapt through looking for ways to cope with the changes so that we will be able to continue with our lives smoothly.
After all of the speculations, man tries to test hypotheses through experimenting to prove his deductions true. As much as possible, we go beyond whatever we know. We think outside the box in designing the experimental set but at the same time bear in mind the limitations we have. No matter how imaginative it may be, we try to keep it grounded by being realistic and maintaining a strong disposition in the advancements that science has founded on the fields of biology, genetic engineering, microbiology, cryogenics and other life sciences that deepen our knowledge of human life and our origins.
It is only natural to want to know about one’s past. But no matter how much we try to seek the answers, there are just some information we are not privy to. And they will forever be the most wonderful secrets of life.
I, myself, also have a lot of questions regarding our origin. However, we have our own ways of seeking for the answers. As much as possible, I try to study and understand the things being taught in science class because I figured it is one of the best ways for me to know about how things around me works. Science is one of the most believable and trusted information sources about things. It does not lie and it accepts its limitations. I have seen this in the manner by which the different fields of science carries out their different experiments out in the field and in the lab where they are open to accept, record and proudly publish results to the scientific community or scientists fail at an experiment and hope to design a new experiment or redesign their current one and come up with different results – hopefully seeking newer ways to understand the world around them.
*8th blogpost by Arriane Kristel Fuentebella
