There are two things in Life that I've learned: There is a God, and I'm not him

I hug trees. Not literally. Trees continues to fascinate me. A single tree, trees in the forest, trees in the park, naked trees in the winter, colorful trees in the fall, a tree-lined street, trees that give shades, trees that hold water, trees that bare fruits, trees that cools the air. There is no single tree on earth that has the same shape, even if they are the same kind.

I just came back from a botany class from the CivicGardenCenter, one of the community classes for those of us who are interested in community gardening. Science is not my favorite subject, as you might be able to tell, but if it's about trees, I would not give up to try. Of course I heard about this already when I was a eight-grader, but the non-expectation of what they call exams made me focus on what made sense instead of trying to memorize everything. What I thought would be a boring science class was an interesting discovery. God could not stop showing himself and his glorious mind and creation.

None of us who live in this moment could prove of how long the earth had exist (please don't try to convince me with the entire carbon testing method, and explaining this would need to be covered in a different post), but science could prove that the chronology of creation according to the bible was correct. Trees existed before other moving and breathing animals and us! They were the only one "thing" that could change the form of energy from light to chemical energy called sugar.

Science also proves that it will be impossible to imagine that a complex system as in a tree or even a leaf came from a big coincidence of nature. And the most fascinating thing to me is that there is no tree alike on earth. Well, we can tell that every tree will grow depending on its environment, soil, the amount of micronutrient, macronutrient, the amount of oxygen, water and air around it. But even each tree will produce seeds that each will produce a tree with a different characteristic than the other. And without human intervention, every orange tree will produce oranges that, if each were planted back, will produce a different result. Therefore anomali and adaptation happens. In my brain, I could not imagine that such a brilliant, complex, (and working!) system is a result of a coincidence. There was a brain of all of these.

All the chemical reactions, enzymes, the flow of food, water, air, and oxygen "dictated" the entire system what to behave next. Stomata on the leaf knows when to open and when to close depending on the activity of photosyntesis that happened in the leaf. They know when to "breathe", they know when respiration and digestion need to be done. Reproduction became a natural activity for trees; when they feel like their lives were "threatened" (for example when their roots were cut or if they "feel" there were competitions) they would try to produce flowers, which actually was an act to produce seeds, to prepare themselves to "die." Who in the world could create these natural brain? Certainly not one of us. We could find a way to reproduce trees through cutting, or graphing, or planting the meristems, but we cannot create a tree out of nothing. Only God can.