Life or Death?

This blog was inspired by the following Bob Marley interview:
 

Bob says, "Death is trying to take life, but life is stronger than death."

As an evolutionist, I could not help but think about this statement in terms of evolution. Bob is right, for 300 million years, death has been trying to eliminate life. It attacks every living thing in order to reduce it to its simplest terms. This, in effect, is what scientists call entropy. Yet despite death's constant attack, life always finds a way to survive. And not only does it survive; it 'super-vives.' In other words, it strengthens itself, and spreads like wildfire into myriads of different, and higher, forms. In humans, life has now created a specie which through genetics, eugenics and general medical research, is proactively attacking death itself.

"Some people think death is stronger than life."
Of course many people believe that what we are doing is in vain. "We will never be able to successfully defeat death and entropy. Some new disease will kill us. The earth will run out of vital resources. The sun will cool and we will die. This is not pessmist, this is realist."


"But we know that life is stronger than death."
Ultimately, the question is, life or death? Who has the last laugh? Does death eventually extinguish all life on earth, or does life figure out a way to defeat death? Your answer to this question probably tells a lot about you. It might reveal whether you are an optimist, or a pessimist, despite your personal belief that you are a realist. Your answer to this question probably reveals whether you are a person of religious faith, or whether you are an agnostic or atheist. It seems to me that a person of religious faith must maintain that life (because 'God is life') ultimately wins.

"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" (1 Corinthians 15:55).

"Life is the road"
Bob Marley is an evolutionist, an optimist, a man of faith, and a hella musician. Death may have taken him at a very young age (36), but whenever I hear one of his classic tunes on the radio, I cannot help but feel that he lives on...