On the Wings of Hope : Prose

-           Well, and how did they manage to grow their feet “gradually”, aye? At first a half of foot has grown, fish has noticed that it’s, surely, a good sign, but does not allow one to jump or at least creep on the ground, and gills still disturbed her … and, well, transferred into the future her “message” to the descendants to be engaged in self-improvement from the very birth … I mean while still being a caviar?

-           Probably, afterwards they began to be born as such, with fins-feet. So that it would be easier for them to walk on the ground.

-           And how did they manage to swim in that case? Or did they specifically forget how to swim for the sake of creeping?

-           Well, I have no idea, sonny. But that’s what the official evolutionary theory of live organisms is stating … and who are we to reject it completely?

-           Yeah, my teacher in school told me almost the same way! To tell the truth, I asked her a next question after that … so well, let’s say they have even somehow managed to affirm themselves on the land … but why not all of them? After all, if it’s so nice living on the ground under the sun, why then the part of these most different sea organisms hasn’t even dared to go hand-in-hand with colleagues? Has the genetic memory of some of them suddenly died off and a mass amnesia took place … or were they so coward that had no even a slightest desire to follow their “big brothers”?

-           Probably, sonny, there was no more need for any more of them to leave the ocean - those who have already performed that act, were enough.

-           Yeah, sure, and overland creatures have, of course, transferred the “message” to their sea colleagues - hey, stop your crawling outside of water, morons, there is no more place for the rest of you under the sun.

-           Yeah, I do agree, that sounds quite silly. But followers of Darwin have not though up anything cleverer up to now.

-           I still don’t understand much, dad! Take, for example, the following aspect - how did these overland beings then manage to grow themselves wings … gradually … plumelet after a plumelet and bone after a bone? They, probably, at first tried to jump and jump from the ground - and have finally jumped to a state when they could fly up and soar, yeah?

-           Well, some sort of mutations can happen there from time to time. It was that way and then - voila! - an entire new wing has grown all of a sudden due to change of genes under the influence of external factors of environment.

-           Dad … do you even believe that yourself, huh? What’s that - external factors? Is that when someone scary pursues you, wanting to gobble up, and suddenly wings do born from a fear instead of former feet? Or did a radiating infection took place there a very long time ago, or the sun suddenly started to shine somewhat special? And, hey, dad, don’t you think that if the level of mutations is so low, it resembles more a sorting-out process, instead of evolutionary one? As if someone made an experiment on a group of animals, tried something … it hasn’t turned out … and ceased to continue in that direction? And, besides, there are some unusual animals … penguins for instance … duck-bills … did they over-mutated?

-           Well … mutations is a terrible force, indeed. Not even amnesia, but even a death can occur after these mutations … gradually, that’s it. It turns out that we are all mutants of some kind for now, to a certain degree.

-           Dad, explain to me one more thing … why are these, how are they called, mammals, are considered more evolutionary and “advanced” in their development, to say so, than all fishes, amphibious, bacteria, viruses … after all even named viruses can destroy these mammals in no time! Who even dared to define which “kingdom” of animals came from which one, aye? After all, they have still coexisted together … are they to be considered an unfinished, “stuck” branch of evolution then?

-           It turns out to be that way … but who actually knows? Possibly, we along with monkeys are the evolutionary avantguard of this world? And the rest of animals do promptly catch up with us, hurry, enviously looking in our eyes as if saying: “We wanna be like you are, pray teach us, kind ones!”

-           It turns out to be a planet of monkeys, dad! Well, we were told even that way that a man came out from a monkey, which was improved by a hard work, being given elements of true human-like reason … somesuch. Yet there is one thing which I still cannot comprehend - why do modern monkey like the one we observed yesterday in a zoo not turn in us, huh? After all, for how many millions of years has a man been living along with them … to a zero effect. And no work helps them … as if they all missing something vital to finally turn into a man.