What Is Life?
What Is Life?
No matter how much scientists discover about the physical systems in organisms and their possible origin, they still have no clue about the infinitely more difficult question of where life came from. If you could make a baby from scratch, with all its physical parts in place, you still would not have a living human.
Inorganic Matter to Unicellular Life-Forms
Although scientists already knew that bacteria, as with all life, are exceedingly complex, this discovery adds to our awareness of just how complex many of the supposed “simplest” life-forms actually are.
Life and Conception
Once upon a time, conception was synonymous with fertilization; in the new millennium, conception became synonymous with implantation, which typically occurs six to nine days later. Stedman’s semantic alteration, like an earlier change by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, reflected not medical science but sociological and political correctness.
Articles About What Is Life?
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Dec. 6, 2020 from Answers Magazine
What mysterious quality makes a creature alive at one moment but is absent the instant the creature dies?
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Book Chapter5.3 What Is Life? The Evolutionary ViewOct. 25, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?
Evolutionists regard life as an exclusively material process. In this vein. B.O. Küppers mentions four necessary criteria for the existence of life.
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleSemantics Don’t Change Truth: The social motivations behind new definitionsNov. 10, 2010 from Answers in Depth
No matter how many times man redefines human life, God’s truth doesn’t change.
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Inorganic Matter to Unicellular Life-FormsJuly 17, 2010
Couldn’t inorganic matter have easily evolved to become simple, unicellular life-forms? If only (for evolutionists) it were so simple!
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How Simple Can Life Be?Dec. 29, 1997
This article describes the theory of abiogenesis and provides statistics about the likelihood of the most simple concievable organism developing from chance.
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Technical Research Paper‘Life’ According to the Bible, and the Scientific EvidenceAug. 1, 1992, pp. 98–121
So one may observe that the definition of a nervous system must not be thought of in terms of its basic function (response to stimuli), but in terms of its makeup (specialized cells).
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