Primordial organisms (purportedly and strictly based on my cumulative yet quite
limited fount of knowledge gleaned from two score and seven years dawn to dusk
personal fin de siecle episodes) lacked any semblance of conscious awareness!
As a measure of what we (as the collective intelligence of Homo Sapiens) deem to be
supreme mental acuity to comprehend the mind boggling concept of Biological Evolution
from whence unicellular entities manifested into the vast differentiation of life in general
and each individual man, woman and child in particular, I as an ordinary male mortal
human being born within the latter half of twentieth century (Anno Domini) as a member
of said genus and species now try to pontificate and understand the billions of years that
elapsed and transpired from that initial incarnation of terrestrial events (perchance even
originating from one or more stray cosmic objects) the barest essence of that schema
quantified as existence (which incorporated random combinations and permutations
moderated via survival of fittest theoretical proposition) essentially conspiring to
promulgate a barely discernable genetic connection that over millions of millennia later
traced little electrical arcs that spanned the microcosmic gaps between the axons and
synapses constituting the definitive lineage extant within said writer of these words.
Understand this rather convoluted theme thus far?
No particular rhyme nor reason constitutes this personal intent to apprise and self
actualize the vast (some might say utterly impossible) task to take stock of basic
trappings percolating in so called primordial ooze (an incomprehensible number of
billions years in the distant past), which natural laboratory nearly comprising the entire
planet Earth harbored critical and essential atomic and/or molecular composition
eventually distilling original progenitors inhabiting the various and sundry animal and
plant world.
Impossible for me as a non-scientific (yet contemplative, introspective and
philosophical) person to gauge the innumerable eons and epochs that passed with little or
no measurable alteration nor modification extant within that brew (vintage forever
unknown) containing rawest components identified as living forms! A gross hunch
prompts this layman to hypothesize the passage of imponderable blocks of time whereby
a stasis condition prevailed. Difficult to understand what natural forces and processes set
in motion a chain reaction that unleashed profound explosions (most likely registered as
imperturbable repercussions within the salty brine) that instigated punctuated
equilibrium.
Once the watery expanse (more pointedly isolated and specific pockets within the
infant seas) housed these very tentative (nor to mention vulnerable) kernels, the elements
at large (in my amateur opinion) contributed a slightly more favorable climate to allow,
enable, promote coalescence of greater amalgamation and assimilation among the
invisible amorphous precursors to become far flung fauna and flora.
Inscrutable (for an average occupant this third rock from the sun) to assess the
ambient chemical solution(s) that served as distillery for gradual trials and tribulations
that unbridled compounds developed, which tandem mergers (possibly the very first
leveraged buyout offerings) insinuated subsequent exponential occurrences granting
increased infiltration among more complex units. Prestigious professionals (at the
pinnacle of their career) possess far greater capacity and knowledge to explain
undulations and variations that affected and brought about jolt, which factors (possibly
atmospheric and aquatic) loosed and/or unleashed the tectonic prowess to describe burst
spectrum of life!
Kingdoms distinctly qualified as either animal or plant inhabitants way to premature
this formative birth (day) of pseudo kinetic energies! These earliest hosts to occupy the
warm saline hydrosphere more or less at the mercy of oceanic currents! They lacked
deterministic criteria, but somehow (due as some might ascribe to divine intervention)
devised appurtenances to augment replication. This propensity to duplicate (offspring in
an asexual manner) retained the legacy of core nucleic record. Simultaneous within each
somewhat unique band or clump of miniscule flotsam and jetsam occurred the fluke
symbiotic relationship that abetted greater manifestation of marine based denizens to
populate suitably temperate oceans. If this one deep thinker could interpolate and
postulate per the view (with proper scuba gear and functional time travel machinery), he
might be privy to behold an argot of chimerical dust mote like shapes and sizes
presenting a myriad kaleidoscopic, scintillating display of utmost breath-taking beautiful
sight across the glistening miasma! In truth, not one living soul ever experienced the
microscopic hybrids, which concoctions of chance, fate and Mother Nature held the
gamut of diversification within primitive coils and strands of DNA. Such latent potential
forecasting (hundreds if not thousands millennia in the future), the exotic and varied
jumble offered up by the creative powers thriving in the organic, nutrient rich baths at
some juncture in the space/time continuum spawned the era for substantial life to
illustrate the subterranean vistas!
Many pages, chapters and more accurately volumes recorded via the hand of said
universal creator (for no one to read nor see) the veritably unchanging drama that
predominated across the ideally supercharged wetlands. This lapse of eons (manifold
lengthier than the dawn of civilization until this present twenty first century after the
death of Jesus Christ) incomprehensible! Now try to imagine (an exercise in futility and
nearly beyond the realm of possibility), these nascent nodules of nuclear nectar keeping
intact within a Byzantine cellular paradigm for aforementioned span.
Numerous descriptive words such as indecipherable, ineluctable, inscrutable
frequently rack and reverberate within my self-provoked mind when pondering such
awesome notions. Just like every other bipedal creature happenstance brought into this
world, I too contemplate questions about the spark that triggered the onset known as
spectrum of biosphere. A personal manuscript of low research caliber perhaps
conveniently quantified as fictional. Improper and impolite for such stream of
consciousness musings to attest as true when little or no expertise (nor discrete and
specific arcane) provides a privilege to claim authenticity and veracity. This exposition of
feelings, ideas and thoughts pertaining to the age-old question (from whence many
religious belief systems sprung) only yields to the private domain lodged within the
psychic makeup of this here one and only individual, who for reasons and rhymes
unbeknownst to himself suddenly entertains such an awesome concept and only wishes to
capitalize on some literary skill to organize such sentiments into cogent paragraphs.
Damn near impossible to capture infinitely occurring poetic flashes of insight and queries
that flit to and fro within the center of thinking and I realize this essay to represent a poor
approximation of the vibrant jungle of prose that beckons to be carefully trod with a
custom made scythe. Lest an elusive prey escape (born from an overactive imagination),
the return to a former point of existential pontification will be brought back with a gentle
massage to scalp to invigorate the dozing rapscallions, which fire up the axons and
neurons.
This mind bending exercise to scrutinize the seething hospitable cauldron harboring
the seeds of genesis, which reacted favorably to the ramifications in such fecund brew
once again entertained more so as a way to while away leisure minutes and also perhaps
to receive some commendable feedback (in the form of monetary remuneration) and
subsequent publication. Just to make clear once again, I embark on a rather exceptional
task to organize bombardment of ruminations ricocheting (like a miniature super ball or
two) within the gray matter in the cranium otherwise known as the brain. Difficult if not
downright impossible to codify in some clear and logical manner present assault
pertaining to an unexpected preoccupation (not yet associated as obsessive/compulsive
behavior) about realm affiliated as the eminent domain of intelligentsia filling the ranks
and file of scholarly professors. I do not purport to excel nor outflank prestigious
personages who spent extensive years examining biota (mostly thru advanced computer
technology), but merely intended to compile an essay based on current fount of
knowledge resorting to my own insight into the commingling of events that brought forth
this awesome zoological maelstrom.
Those most learned and smartest experts (who earned the right to belong to selective
academic circles) dedicated to search for some clues holding the secrets per supreme
mystery probably experience bafflement and stymied investigations. Not for me to
challenge nor trespass their doctrinal thesis substantiated by ample footnotes. No! A
peculiar frenzy holds extreme (yet harmless) fascination to explain in some
understandable fashion my view of this schema signaling stratification from sparse
sporadic (and spotty) globules (no doubt mere specks) giving rise to abundant hierarchy
of life. In truth, an analysis of myself (which composite includes idiosyncrasies, nuances
and quarks to list a few personal characteristics) accidentally led this expanded scope to
consider history of mankind and of course womankind. A swirl of intrigue motivates self-
discipline epitomizing a quest to understand aspects inherent since birth and/or appearing
later since a newborn. Circumspection about entire ancestry might never be feasible, but
this mental stretch could possibly offer a glimmer of present trials and tribulations by
glimpsing back in the remote past. Without obedience to stated precedents and protocols
and objection against poring over tombs in the reference section of libraries, I do bias this
epistle and undermine the believability of numerable statements. Claim to fame not my
aim! None of these words ought to be accepted as the gospel according to Matthew
Scott! Each and every sentence (from beginning to end of manuscript) to be read as
fictionalized fact. I sought some salvation from exploring journey within to yield a
product that offers cleansing of soul. Psychic angst riddles (like Swiss cheese) mindset of
an ordinary guy, which plague possibly a collective weakness woven (like a delicate and
fine thread) since that faint, first tapestry strand coaxed from miraculous spate of
incidents.
Now let me get back to brass tacks and return to the former epistemological focus of
this treatise!
Flourish of material approximating a masquerade of organisms occurred early in the
geologic history of this oblate spheroid frequently alluded as the emerald in the sky!
Rather than ascribe any particulars to this concept (since no intent goads me to
compromise the vested establishment nor interest of the scientific community), I affirm
that way back thru the fog and mist of space/time contiuum unbridled activities ushered
the ideal milieu to groom the physical environment for plentiful outburst of bio-diversity
to materialize. At some indiscriminate occasion fantastic forces affected a propensity for
quiet explosion to rock the firmament. Still, no definitive entities would be visible in the
two hydrogen atoms plus one oxygen atom special elixir!
Many tens of thousands of sheets contained in the epic writ large (and small) via
(some might vouchsafe by benevolent hand of a benign creator) must be flipped until a
more robust sample exemplifying a similar facsimile labeled animal or plant identified.
Here and there one might discern the features resembling so named simplest (in terms of
cellular structure) beings that could very well represent our earliest progenitors! As one
fast-forwards (in the figurative sense of course) additional, these leafs from metaphorical
copious text, a noticeable proliferation of multifarious (not to mention mellifluous)
critters dot the landscape. As if by abracadabra magic or sleight of hand, a bounty of
teeming hosts luxuriated in glorious mornings. Most if not all these characters thrived in
the lavish liquid lowlands. Proletariats by default, a small minority would emigrate to the
lush, solid and vegetation covered ground. Such segue-way from aquatic to terrestrial
habitués entailed passage of a good many hundreds of thousands more revolutions or
Earth round the sun.
An up tick in the in the energetic flux spurred logarithmic poufs and more radical
pulses and waves as an after affect of the Godlike wizard wand, which wrought
prestidigitatious preponderance of nubile buds and pods beckoning rambunctious
awakening diadems to expand in quantity. Gregarious landlubbers soon slithered from the
ooze, which if fast forward photography present would portray a migration of wormlike
wonder-kinds. Once again, I pledge to ask forgiveness in straying from any factual
formulations and also to take poetic/prosaic license in stipulating such archaic scenarios.
Such literary promiscuity gives leeway to supplement this semi valid tale with
exaggeration and hyperbole!
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