Photosynthesis is God’s purest organic mechanism. It’s the heart and miracle that drives all life on Earth. The Garden of Eden was really the planet Earth, it wasn’t some fictitious other dimension that Adam and Eve were chilling out at. Plantlife are the most purely magical creations. They combine water and air with light, all inorganic materials, and manage to create complex sugars and fats and proteins out of, literally, thin air.
Where did He get the idea for photosynthesis? I find some poetic parallel between the way a star is born and lives; from the primordial soup of hydrogen and helium, the gases swirl and concentrate, until it reaches a mathematically determined density to start nuclear fusion. The star is an artificial heartbeat, a robotic mechanism that pencils out like a neat calculus equation. It emits heat and light, has a gravitational pull, and lives a dramatic life cycle, from birth to red giant to supernovae then dwarf star. But there is no meaningful complexity to it. A star has no interior life, feels no passion, and has no drive. A star inhales and exhales but does not breathe. A star is beautiful and perfect, save for the occasional oddball that turns into a black hole. I think in a way, the existence of black holes was God attempting something different, like a deviation from the formula. Technically speaking, black holes defy convention. They’re sort of the universe’s garburetors…. Because they intake matter and shred it into finer bits so that it may be reformulated into something else.
Photosynthesis reinterprets the star’s story by giving it meaning. Organic life differs because it formulates matter in a different way each time in a way that has visible difference. No two stars are the same, yes…. But to the naked eye, two stars could look quite similar. And for the most part, all stars are created in the same way, made up of about the same materials, and go through a life cycle that stays relatively consistent proportional to its size.
Organic life, however, creates multiples of species that are so very different. Organic matter mutates — helium and hydrogen on their own cannot mutate, but genetic mutation caused by factors acting on DNA? That’s something special. That’s the randomness of the universe given meaning. Because, existence itself is now given instruction sets to express itself.
That’s why CRISPR is insane to me. We’re burrowing down to the literal baseline of organic existence. I saw a video of a female mosquito whose genes had been edited so that the proboscis was weakened so it could not penetrate human skin. Through human intervention, entire species can be entirely changed. Think about that. A mosquito’s lifecycle (like any living thing’s lifecycle) is driven by processes outside of human manufacturing. It’s not possible to synthesize a mosquito in a factory, because that’s not the point. But now we can edit a single stage in the process: the genes, and let the mosquito do the rest. Now we’ve manipulated a mosquito into creating a new generation of edited individuals that has never existed beforehand. It’s not irrational to say that such an inferior mosquito may have never developed into existence without human intervention.
All this driven by God’s divine instrument and arguably the most sacred thing in existence: light. It’s a radiowave, it’s charged with energy, it can act upon matter despite technically having no mass. It weighs something, but can’t be weighed in the conventional sense. It’s the fastest thing in the universe but cannot travel through opaque material. It is the expression of the Divine Hearts (stars) and energizes and legitimizes life to exist. And perhaps one day, we will travel within rays of light, stepping into a different plane of existence by becoming one with the Photons.
