THE CO-OPERATIVENESS OF LIFE

I'm reading a graphic book on epigenetics, which describes the complex chemical dance that goes on around DNA, that ensures that certain genes are activated, and certain ones are switched off. It's a hugely complex, delicate balance that is barely understood. And I'm left awed by it. It just seems impossible to me that there isn't a phenomenal intelligence behind this, even though there is no scientific description for such an idea. All biological complexity has this effect on me. This complexity is supposed to have come about largely through chance changes that happen to work. Impossible. 

The human body is 1 trillion cells co-operating. That is surely the basis for life itself, one giant co-operation, one Great Spirit behind it all, beyond rational comprehension. This is why, when they kill an animal, the Native Americans thank that animal for giving its life. It's maybe best not taken too literally, but there is also a deep truth in it, and a gratitude that goes with it: that life is essentially co-operative, life loves all other forms of life. Maybe we are the first society ever to see life as essentially competitive, and to have a Creation Story based around that.

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