Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
"Aging, and eventually dying, is a consequence of the accumulation of damage to an organism
over time. There is wear and tear on DNA, from chemicals in the environment, or radiation, or
copying errors. Cells may not divide correctly, and proteins can misfold, leading to gradual
deterioration of tissues, or catastrophic disease and system shutdown. Yet this sorry
progression, has a logic: “The strategy that nature seems to use over and over is to let cells
and organisms that have accumulated all this damage die off—and give their progeny a fresh
start to go on and conquer the world.”
“There is no theoretical reason why organisms couldn’t have evolved to be immortal.”
Ernest Fraenkel, Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT.
But no life form has evolved that is immortal.
But there is a practical reason why sin has produced death. One of the fundamental principle
on which the Darwinian Evolution proponents stand is the idea that humans and all other
organisms are merely ‘survival machines’, designed by our genes as a means for their own
perpetuation. Soon after the fall, the genes developed self centered organisms as survival
machines- which mean that each life form is programmed to take advantage of every situation
to furthers its own personal needs. They fought for whatever is necessary for their glory and
survival. Fast reproduction and sexual reproduction were indeed necessary for the survival of
the species as an extension of this personal selfishness. This competition within the species
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