Food For Thought

After studying GIT (digestive system for short) and listening to the lecturer's unorthodox, but highly effective way of teaching, I have come to the conclusion that humans as a whole did not evolve from a soup of atoms that somehow formed 1 cell organism (which decided one day that it was so bored at remaining one cell that it somehow merged to form a multi-cell crap and somehow evolve to become humans). Note the number of somehows I have put in this one paragraph alone.

For those who support the theory of macroevolution, I would like to wonder aloud: Why is it that the soup is so adapt to evolving, but now despite the thousands of years of changing environment, humans still adopt the "millenia-old" template of many of our fundamental systems?

For instance, our body still uses the old template of "Na+ is hard to get, since I have excess K+ anyway, I must conserve as much Na+ as possible". Hence, the advent of lifestyle diseases due to the human body unable to cope with the stress of high sodium diet. We should have evolved to find a way to excrete Na+ instead of conserving Na+ to death if organisms are so highly adaptable.

Macroevolution. One of the professor (last sem) said that to form a cell out of a primordial soup of chemicals is like asking a person to assemble a Boeing plane from scattered metal parts all over a huge field. I do acknowledge microevolution though; after all, if u have enough genes to play around with, some variations are bound to survive better than others.

Enough of all these scientific thoughts. 3 day week is a good thing to have. I bet those SAF soldiers will be grinning very widely next week (except, of course, those that need to return for guard duty)

Gotta find a tutee (1 or maybe 2) to leech and a driving centre soon. Suddenly, I realised I gotta shoulder a bit more responsibilities than usual. Which is a good problem.