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Questions About the Mysteries of Life

by Ruth A. Wilson
March/April 2016
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“What makes a seed?” asked my six-year-old grandson, Ryland, as we walked to a neighborhood park. While the question seemed, at first, to emerge from scientific curiosity, further discussion indicated that Ryland was actually pondering one of the mysteries of life. Ryland had already been introduced to the idea of planting seeds to grow flowers and vegetables; so he basically understood the nature and function of seeds. 

My first response to Ryland’s question was to tell him that flowers help to make seeds. I gave him an example of how apple trees first get flowers and then, after the petals drop off, the apple, with seeds inside, begin to grow. I also gave him the example of a sunflower where the seeds grow inside the flower.

“I know about flowers and seeds,” said Ryland. “What I want to know is where the seeds first came from. How did they get here before the plants?”

With this question, I was uncertain about how to respond. I could go back billions of years and talk about the world before there were any plants and how a combination of chemicals got together in the ocean or a pond and made a type of soup from which plants ...

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