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Einstein, Heisenberg, and Kippler
Perfection
Which
is perfect? The bud? The rose in bloom? The petals falling to the ground?
My refrigerator will cease to function. It is inevitable. It will no longer
be perfectly suited to fulfilling my need to keep food fresh -- but it will
be perfect within it's design because the engineers designed it with planned
obsolescence..
Human DNA also dictates that we will die. The telomeres will grow shorter
and shorter with each cell reproduction and ultimately become too short to
reproduce. At that point -- even with no disease -- the body loses it's
ability to sustain life beyond the next generation of cell production. The
DNA is the design... the plan...grow, grow old, die. At what point are
we perfect?
Within our DNA is also the design of our brains that dictates the
intelligence and self awareness to be sentient beings -- thereby making
choices -- thereby making mistakes -- therefore -- even making mistakes
falls within the designed functionality of the human animal.
What separates us from non-sentient life forms, however, is the ability to
distinguish the difference between what we are and what our potential either
is or is perceived to be. The ancient Hebrews called this difference 'Sin'.
Perfection is another word that is dangerous.
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