Organisms of life

As science is the product of rational brain activity, a scientific work, an analysis of a piece of reality, has essentially the same message for all who are blessed with the necessary prerequisite knowledge. In contrast to science, it is not the objective of fine art, literature, or music to describe or analyze objectively existing reality. On the contrary, real art deals with a nonexistent world that is indefinable in any material sense, with a universe created in the human cortex. The message of an artwork is therefore ambiguous, its effect is in essence emotionally based. Everyone enters in his own special way into the spirit of an artwork. This is also true for the Holy Scriptures, art products of the human brain that played the most important role in the spiritual organization of life in the rising phase of human society and served the maintenance and development of that society. 

The science of classification is called taxonomy and the organization of life by ancestor-descendent (evolutionary) relationships is called phylogeny. The characterization and comparison of key intracellular molecules has altered prior classification and relationship schemes. 

Carbon is unique among the elements in the vast number and variety of compounds it can form. With hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other elements, it forms a very large number of compounds, carbon atom often being linked to carbon atom. There are close to ten million known carbon compounds, many thousands of which are vital to organic and life processes. 

The remarkable properties of water render it particularly suitable to its unique role in living processes and the environment, and its presence in abundance favors the existence of life. Let s examine water s physical and chemical properties to see the extent to which they provide conditions that are advantageous to organisms. 

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