1. Take a ball-point pen, the retractable kind (that clicker that makes the pen's tip go in or out [hey I had to ask a friend because I couldn't think of the word retractable! :-) ])
2. Get an empty coffee can with the lid or even better a quart-sized mason jar with the funny 2 part lid (or any other jar that is clean and dry and can be sealed or screwed on tightly)
3. Take the pen apart (in a way that allows you to put it back together)
4. Put all the pen's pieces in the jar or can and then seal it (with just its regular lid/cover, no duck/duct tape... well, maybe not yet)
Good? All set? Great! Now, think of one of the body's "systems" like circulatory system (blood, blood cells, veins, arteries, etc), skin (actually the largest of all the systems!), respiratory (breathing), and I will stop there. But you get the general idea. So, once you have chosen, we are ready for the experiment!
All right! So, most everyone understands that there are two main 'schools of thought,' or way of seeing things, if you like, when it comes to how everyone, everything came into existence. You have the Evolution side that basically states that over a period of what is generally believed to be 14.5 billion years ago, there was a speck of something that many believe was denser than neutron stars, denser than even supermassive black holes (??) or perhaps one of dozens of different ideas on the density and what the material was, but suffice to say that there was a massive explosion in the otherwise great nothingness and it exploded in a "Big Bang" and then at about the 9.5 to 10 billion years point, the Solar System within the Milky-way galaxy had a few planets orbiting around a rather smallish M class yellow star and on the 3rd planet life began from a bunch of amino acids that converged into protein and eventually life began first with simple single cell amoebas and 3.8 to 4.5 billion years later, some funny-looking dude decides to type up a weird experiment. Hi!
(This is, before anyone decides to rip it to shreds, a very simple and basic middle-of-the-road version of the Evolution & Big Bang Theories—and for this experiment, more than adequate)
Now, the other side of this is that which is commonly called Intelligent Design or Creationism. That some entity, clearly of significant intelligence, purposely designed the stars, galaxies, our little Solar System, and that life, or lives, were all designed. Was there evolution? Sure! And actually, what Darwin saw on the different islands of the Archipelago we know as Galapagós Islands, was evolution. Absolutely nobody could ever dispute that with the difference of environmental factors that varied between the different islands, the finches that Darwin was studying had, for example, different beak shapes that made that variety of finches better suited to that particular island. This is called MICROevolution. Just like (and please understand that I am not being racist at all, but I am showing.... well you will see) the difference between African, (and African-American Africans so called by location only), and Australia Aboriginal (Ab = of or to/towards; Original = from this region which simply means that while Native Americans are not Indians, are also ab- -original and so then, are African people who have dark skin like that of the Australian-native or aboriginal people) people and Caucasian, pale-skinned Northern European and Scandinavian countries. Now, nobody, unfortunately, ever seems to appreciate any of the Micro-evolutionary differences that make all of us beautiful in our own ways. Africans for example have darker skin and wider noses. Why? Environmental factors. Look at the Cheetah. Look at the very noticeable difference in the width of the Cheetah's noses in comparison with the other big cats that also live in Africa, for example. Doesn't that destroy my argument? NO! And it's beautiful! Think about how a Cheetah can run up to 70-75 miles per hour/mph: faster than many highway speed limits! Well just like a car that needs more gas to hit 70 or 75 mph, a Cheetah would, even after half the normal amount of time it can sustain such speed, if they had thinner noses than the other African cats: lions and leopards, they would have their life span cut down by 90% and even with only a 10% sized life span, brain damage would set in almost immediately, though maybe not necessarily noticeable. What happens when you take a Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, etc native person to the African continent? Sunburn within 30 minutes. See? Beautiful variety! And back to the finches who, like us, are all the same genus and species, but different varieties (races in humans). Micro. But of course, it is time for the testing.
Fact or Fiction? The pen we have disassembled: made in Nature, or by human beings (or, on machinery made by the humans)? Duh! Of course, we made it!
Fact or Fiction? The body's "system" you chose: more complex than the pen? (I don't mean bigger, I mean more intricately designed than the pen)
NOW, if you chose the pen, you can naturally assume that you also think that everything you see, have ever seen, or will see is all simply chance. If you are correct, then by the same logic, if a tornado tears through a junkyard, then there is a decent chance that when you go to see how much damage there was to the junkyard, instead you see a perfectly built Boeing 747 Jet Airplane. Right? And, by the same token, you can now seal up the jar/can with the pen's disassembled parts and someday, (because it is actually a fact that even one cell on a body—no matter what system you chose—is more complex than not only the pen...but a smartphone. If you still don't believe me, research the cell of a body. You can even choose a different animal. But be careful! Smaller is not necessarily simpler. The fruit fly has over 3 times as many chromosomes than a human. Even ferns! This is one of the key examples that Darwin used to describe how the evolution of plants is charted out in a set manner. Of course, Darwin died before they were able to find out more about the animals and the plants and their respective cells. He knew that all cells, plants or animals, all have a nucleus. Darwin is also recorded as having admitted that if the cell was even more complex than they had first believed, then it would blow apart his entire structure and most of the individual aspects of the system that was up until very recently, Kingdom (Plant and Animal), Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species and Variety which can easily be remembered by the mnemonic (nee-MON-ic) King Philip Came Over From Germany Singing Verses. I am sorry to say that I know of no mnemonics to remember this new version. That's all for today and remember, at any second the ball point pen could be put back together with simple random chance.
