Tuesday, January 13, 2015

What does the rice plant want?

The biblical view of life is that God created plants and animals with humans in mind. He created the grains so his children (only us, not the other zillion creatures) could eat tasty bread. He created cow and other milking animals so we could drink milk, cheese, butter, and other delicious diary products. Pigs, chicken, cows and other meat producing animals exist to cater to our need for high quality, delicious proteins. He created leafy vegetables and sweet fruits for a healthy balance. The huge bio-diversity that is available in nature is to ensure that we do not get bored eating the same meal!

Really!

Then there is the Theory of Evolution. Here is a para taken from The Wikipedia "Evolution, also known as descent with modification, is the change in heritable phenotype traits of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization, including the level of species, individual organisms, and at the level of molecular evolution". Do you see any reference to a God or his favorite: Man (not woman)?

Nah. The former theory, I mean fantasy, leads to more questions than answers (other than giving cliched responses like, "Just so", "God's will" and others of even lesser value). But if some people like this opiate, good for them. Just don't thrust your drug on me.

A rice plant is way to make rice seeds. And a rice seed is a way to make more rice plants. That is the only purpose of rice. It does not worry if it is tasty or starchy. It does not care if the stalk is short and thick so more grain can grow without the plant bending. It does not care if we, humans, like it more or less. It does not mind if we get diabetes, eating a little more of it or lose weight eating less of it. It does not think.

Its sole purpose is self-propagation. All it wants to do, to paraphrase God in Genesis, is to

Go forth and multiply!

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