Life Sustains Life….. God makes a system like this

Life Sustains Life….. God makes a system like this

Now days, I am reading Origin of Species written by Charles Darwin. I have just started it casually but as a student of life sciences I have develop much interest in his theory of evolution because of his sharp observations which we usually ignored. Although, I have not completed the book yet but I realized that it was written to express many hidden beliefs which were disclosed in the light of logic. It was written at the time when orthodox catholic system was in power and speaking about science was crime. I am not a critic but one thing we should keep in mind that you can give logic for any damn thing to prove your point. It is not always necessary that truth and logic follows the same path. I am not exaggerating or confusing the readers but my point is that whatever you are trying to prove with logic is not always correct especially in life sciences or simply in biology because biology is a science of exception.

Here I am discussing one of the saying or quote or thought of Charles Darwin. He said “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars”

Drawin was good observer but what he propounded was theory not facts..  

In a simple way to understand, he said that merciful (Rahim) God will not create a thing which will feed on other living body (because it is against human ethics) or we can see he was denying God by saying this. I believe Darwin gave thinking in an isolated frame, he just seen caterpillar but overlooks the other life i.e. wasp (he called it parasite).

This thing awakens mercy in his heart and he thought this quote. It is human nature that we cannot see a pain of other life, we are designed like this. It was not only Darwin but my wife also have same intentions and emotions when she saw a hunting hyena in Serengeti plains of Africa (on National Geographic Channel) when he teared out newly born fawn of Thompson gazelle (a deer). She wonders that why this demon hyena killed that innocent fawn. Then I usually told her that this fawn was his food he was just having his meal as you have your lunch or dinner to remain alive.

This kindness is embossed on human heart which is necessary to keep social fabric and social life of humans in the society. But what is behind nature which drives this all. We should start with basics of biology to understand this stand or thinking of my wife and Darwin.

When Darwin propound his theory of evolution he didn’t knew about modern biology and intricate relationship among different form of life. He observe natures phenomenon and gave his observation along with his assumptions and inferences. No doubt observations were sharp and to the point but his inferences were not always applaud able. He didn’t know about food chain and food web which we have learnt in class 4 of primary school. He also didn’t know about photosynthesis, genetics and respiration. Modern day biology says that energy in nature always flows in one direction i.e. from sun to plants to herbivores to carnivores. This flow of energy maintains life on earth. No step could be skipped in anyway which means deer can’t take energy from sun directly it always comes to deer through grass and similarly hyena can’t eat grass to satisfy his hunger he needs deer (in whatever form it may be either fawn or disabled old deer). This is called food chain. Every life depends on other life to survive because they need energy for growth, maintenance and reproduction. This transfer of energy would not like putting battery cell in a flash light which is clean enough to see light in its bulb.

Transfer of energy from one step to another requires wastage of huge amount of energy in the form of heat dissipation (in thermodynamics we called it spontaneous process or downhill reaction). Only 10% of the energy would able to transfer from one step to next step. This assumption is verified by the fact that at every step the population of particular creature decreases like trees outnumbers the deer and deer outnumbers the hyenas. It is because they get less and less energy to get sustain in ecosystem.

Now come to the point of caterpillar and wasp. Did wasp was doing wrong? What was the problem in having caterpillar by wasp. It was wasp’s food, God made wasp to maintain the population of caterpillars otherwise they destroy whole trees by eating their leaves. With modern scientific knowledge we came to know the importance of wasp in pollination of flowers.

Wasp simply took his share of energy to survive for which he was designed and deployed by nature. It is the same thing what caterpillar did with leaf of trees. Simply, wasp parasitize caterpillar, caterpillar parasitize leaf and leaf parasitize sun…for energy and sun burns hydrogen and from where hydrogen came into existence is still poorly understood by so called developed science, get answer for this question rather than disproving nature’s laws which are set up by Almighty.

We should remember life sustains life; this is the rule of nature…