Cheltenham HS

Life
 
 Life to me is an epitome of everything that has ever 
 happened, everything that ever will, and all the 
 stuff in between. Life is nature and animals and 
 humans. Life is doing something and being rewarded 
 for the actions. Life is feelings, loving and 
 being loved. Life is the building up everything 
 great, pride, happiness and love to an ultimate 
 high, and then being smacked in the face with 
 reality, falling to the ultimate low. Life 
 is waking up from a dream, or waking up to a 
 dream come true. Life is permanent change, or 
 the ability to change. 
 It is never consistent yet it's the consistent 
 ticking of our so called time that causes change.
 
 I believe that life originated purely by the evolution 
 of the cell, not through creationism. Although I am 
 a somewhat religious person, there is so much information 
 that I have come across that supports evolutionism 
 that I am pushed to believe that the world could 
 not have possibly been formed in one week. Evidence 
 of dinosaurs and early types of man prove to me that 
 life had to have evolved. The experiment that Stanley 
 Miller did to form amino acids from gasses that are 
 believed to have been on Earth in the very beginning 
 shows that the building blocks of life are formed 
 through gasses and elements. 
 
 We saw in class ourselves the formation of coacervates 
 from very simple materials. From amino acids and 
 coacervates come cells which change and develop into 
 more complex organisms fitting to their environment. 
 There are many species of living things on this earth 
 that show that they might have evolved from simpler 
 forms to fit their environment. When Charles Darwin 
 visited the Galapagos Islands, he found species that 
 had special features to adapt to their environment, 
 like the finches, which had specially shaped beaks to 
 help them do things that birds here don't need. The 
 fact that species can evolve to fit an environment 
 proves that humans were not just created in a 
 short time. The experiments that showed how the 
 first life forms were formed also demonstrate that 
 life did not start with humans.