Life finds a way!

Wherever you look there is life.

One of my favourite quotes from a favourite character, in a favourite film, is Ian Malcolm, the chaos mathematician (which is an amazing branch of science in itself) in Jurassic Park (a film where T-Rex becomes the ultimate modern Prometheus - Shelly would have been proud!) when he says "Life finds a way!".

The full quote is actually - "Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm

Your skin crawls with billions of organisms & they live inside you, we rely on them to digest our food, life exists at the bottom of the deepest ocean trenches & drifts gently into space. It exists in temperature extremes that make organisms almost indestructible & possibly alien.

Unknown tiny organisms exist on the edges of human knowledge yet to be discovered (back in 2003 a massive virus that threatens to redefine what we call life was discovered in a water cooling tower in Bradford) while bigger crypotozooalogical animals like Bigfoot or the Orang Pendek taunt us from the edges of unexplored jungles & forests.

The laws of physics lead inevitably to life. There is no doubt in my mind it is everywhere in the universe. If its not that would be almost as miraculous as life itself!

This is one of the things that lead me to the conclusion that this universe is either one of many (how will we ever know?) or the laws of physics are so finely tuned to indicate that those very simple first laws that lead eventually to conscious beings were programmed by an intelligence which some call God (not to be mistaken with the nonsense, or nonscience, put forward by fundamentalist Christians known as "intelligent design" which has no basis in science & attempts to undermine the theory of evolution).

Here's a couple more quotes from Ian Malcolm, a character after my own heart:-

"I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports." - Ian Malcolm (Often my thoughts on fashion & sport lol)

"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." - Ian Malcolm (Never were truer words spoken)