I stupidly asked myself a question the other day about babies, mothers and fathers. I simply couldn’t answer it. I didn’t know where to, or how to start so I called up my good friend Uncle Albert (Prof John Biggerstaff).

Well; what can I say? Interesting? Mind blowing? Daunting? Exciting? Yes all of these and that was my deduction after a few minutes. Albert is great at showing me new doors to open and what lays beyond. Most of which I don’t understand but by reading, asking questions and digging in I do begin to get an idea.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know where babibies come from and under normal circumstances they require a male and female (which we call mum and dad) to have sexy time. However, tracing back, back, back over generation after generation, logically, there would be just the oringinal mum and dad. That I understand but where did the first Mum and the first Dad come from?

Now you get my conundrum because it all depends on what one believes, knows, accepts and where to find this answer.

There is the obvious reasoning that God created Adam and Eve and then Cane and Seth marrying their sisters Awan and Azura and so on and so on.

Next there is Darwin who thought that we evolved from apes, reptiles, fish and such like with each layer surviving through being the best and adapting to their new surroundings.

Science has given us DNA which has its explanation in forming the tree of life along with molecular construction and development.

These are just a few avenues of thought and there are many more. So now I have even more questions than answers as I don’t know which way to go as there is a lifetime of research here and I don’t have the time or luxury to follow.

My gut feeling is that 14.5 billion years ago The Big Bang happened which had an enormous knock on effect and one of those was the creation of Earth around 4.5 billion years ago when life was at a very simple molecular stage. From that we have discovered the logical evolution of life to its present day but where did those molecules come from? Our Big Bang in our Galaxy is just one of billions of others in the vast universe of space and trying to get the the origin is impossible as one can only comprehend consciousness or nothing and how does ech one exist indipendently?

Why do I ask such unanswerable questions and who cares anyway? I care so I ask.

Albert has set me a goal to try and find out where indeed Mum, Dad and Baby come from and how they know how and what to survive. This is not an easy task for a simpleton like like me and having no academic skill or training it is a very daunting challenge.

I think first of all I have to narrow my line of questioning and put limits to the area of investigation as the whole topic is just too vast and much is down to guess-work, personal agenda and theory as much of it can’t be explained through experimentaion or factual findings.

In some respects I am starting my own educational pilgrimage and choosing the first signposts and directions to the end is where I am at. I must find my tunnel and discover the light at its end.