Post by fjrogers on Sept 10, 2015 10:01:52 GMT 9.5
Survival would be one significant reason. In other respects there must be a higher intelligence involved if plants respond chemically when threatened or interfered with.
Distant peaks emerge....clear as day. The hermit's lantern turns to guide the way. Hermit's Way - F. J. Rogers
On the other hand, how do plants know what chemicals to produce?
Perhaps, originally, different plants produced thousands of different chemicals. Perhaps the ones that produced nice tasty chemicals got eaten to death and the ones that produced poisonous chemicals survived for us to ponder over.
>Perhaps, originally, different plants produced thousands of different chemicals.
So who originally formed those plants with all those lethal chemicals?
Did the creators have non-toxic plants to eat?
I seem to recall that there are very complex plant-insect-animal partnerships to propagate various species, so a more complex scenario may be required.
>Perhaps, originally, different plants produced thousands of different chemicals.
So who originally formed those plants with all those lethal chemicals?
Did the creators have non-toxic plants to eat?
I seem to recall that there are very complex plant-insect-animal partnerships to propagate various species, so a more complex scenario may be required.
It has come to me attention that we define some words very differently. People can neither agree nor disagree if they are using different definitions, because they are talking about different things.
"So who originally formed those plants with all those lethal chemicals?" Life.
"I seem to recall that there are very complex plant-insect-animal partnerships to propagate various species, so a more complex scenario may be required." I am not aware of anything more complex than Life.
I like the definition "The purpose of Life is to transmit knowledge through time". Isn't that what DNA does, transmit the knowledge of how to build a new generation of living things? Knowledge moving through time. It's what life does.