I WAS JUST THINKING: Questions to ponder: How can it be?

By Norma Adams-Wade

We could call them mysteries of the universe. Then again, we could label them as debate topics for agnostics and believers.

In whatever box you decide to place them, these questions ,on their own, are intriguing.

Patterned after the 20 Questions game, here are 20 of my own mysteries. You have permission to consider your own.

1. I was just thinking…, how can it be that rocks form almost exact images of humans and animals?
2. How can it be that a peacock has eyes on its feathers?
3. How can it be that a bird talks?
4. How can it be that some four-legged animals can walk on only two on them?
5. How can it be that dolphins and chimpanzees (over go- rillas) compete for the title of
6. “smartest animal in the world” – behind humans?
7. How can it be that humans shed unnoticeable skin cells, but snakes shed a whole layer of skin at once?
8. How can it be that a Mali woman in 2021 gave birth to nonuplets, 9 babies at once, reportedly without fertility medicines?
9. How can it be that a volcano spits up its innards?
10. How can it be that beach sand can be totally pink in color?
11. How can it be that two streams of the Aragvi River, one light, one dark, run together but do not mix in the country of Georgia near borders of Europe and Asia?
    Those are my top 10. Do you have answers yet? So, let’s try 10 more.
12. How can it be that the rocks of the Great Pyramid at Giza were so meticulously stacked without modern-day machines and technology?
13. How can it be that nature created about 400,000 types of plants that spawn such breath-takingly gorgeous flower blooms repeatedly in their season?
14. How is it that an animal designed to roam free is legally kept in a cage so us humans can stare at it for pleasure?
15. How is it that humans who break laws also are kept in cages?
16. What caused scientists to revise their theory that previously said humans use only 10 percent of our brain to now saying we do use 100 percent of it?
17. How can science say that a leech has 32 brains?
18. How can it be that deserts once had water and that some even were completely under water?
19. Why do scientists argue over which is the longest river on planet Earth – the Nile in Africa or Amazon in South America?
20. Have humans reached agreement over Bible writings stating that there were more than a half-dozen named men who lived more than nine hundred years? Beyond the familiar Methuse- lah (969) some others include (Ama 930 years), Noah (950), and Enos (905).
21. Is it a miscalculation of how time was measured or a fact?
22. And while on that subject, will humans ever finally answer the questions: where is heaven? Where is Hell? Do they even exist?

Your answers please.

Norma Adams-Wade, is a proud Dallas native, University of Texas at Austin journalism graduate and retired Dallas Morning News senior staff writer. She is a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and was its first southwest regional director. She became The News’ first Black full-time reporter in 1974. norma_adams_wade@yahoo.com.