More Questions

As I was reading chapter three various things grabbed my attention. "Natural selection" was a term that got me thinking. Dawkins says that we all have the same DNA but the only difference is how the nucleotides are organized. This would be the part of natural selection because it is the way that they organize eachother. But then again, why do they decide to organize eachother a specific way? Who tells them to organize that way?
The nucleotides are like workers in a factory, they keep the factory working but they receive orders from someone to do them. There has to be someone in charge of this, and restating the point of my previous blog it should be God. Leading me to another question, who is God?

What is the purpose of everything in life? Dawkins talks about how DNA is the same for every organism that lives. "Baisically the same kind of a molecule in all of us from bacteria to elephants." (Pg 21) Why was I chosen to be a human? Why is my dog a dog? I know that they are things that we just accept because it is a part of our lives but I can't help going in deeper about the subject.

When I started reading this book I thought that it was going to be boring because it states the same things as my biology class. But as I start reading I find that Dawkins has a techinique that makes me want to be stuck in the book because it makes me ask many questions that I had never thought  about before.

In class we have discussed if genes are the ones responsible for our personality. I argue that genes are the ones that carry out the information of our physical traits. We develope the person that we are through our lives due to the experiences that we go through and the values that we are taught. Just because a persons parents are serial killers, it doesn't mean that the offspring will be too. It is probable that he/she will see it as if it was nothing wrong because it is what they see at home, but it doesn't mean that they too will do what they do. This reminds me of a quote that I saw on my friends's facebook the other day,
"We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves, when we are born as no one else."

While I was reading the book this grabbed my attention: "It means that genes are at least partly responsible for their own survival in the future, because their survival depends on the efficiency of the bodies in which they live and which the helped to build." (Pg. 24) Meaning that genes are the escence of our life but we are the ones in charge of keeping them healthy to be able to pass them on and reproduce so that our population doesn't become extinct. Just because our parents can pass us good genes, it doesn't mean that we are always going to have them in that stage. During our lives we can make great mistakes affecting our bodies, affecting our offspring.

I want to keep on reading this book, its like Dawkins is telling me important facts, but as he does this he makes me wonder if what he says is true. Although it can be frusturating sometimes because there are no answers to my questions, it is exciting to believe that maybe one day there will be.