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?

Magazine Article

The Mystery of Life

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 Chapter

5.3 What Is Life? The Evolutionary View

Oct. 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.

Technical Research Paper

What Makes Us Human, and Why It Is Not the Brain: A Creationist Defense of the Soul: Reply

June 13, 2012 from Answers Research Journal

To depart from Scripture at any point is neither safe nor right. Thus Estabrook’s discussion of my paper (Joubert 2011) in which he expressed his difficulties with my defense of the soul is welcome.

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Technical Research Paper

What Makes Us Human, and Why It Is Not the Brain: A Creationist Defense of the Soul: Discussion

June 13, 2012 from Answers Research Journal

Certainly there is more to humans than a complex brain architecture from which a mind would seem to emerge. However, this reader has two difficulties.

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Technical Research Paper

What Makes Us Human, and Why It Is Not the Brain: A Creationist Defense of the Soul

Dec. 14, 2011 from Answers Research Journal

A Christian view of the world entails that science is not a Christian’s ultimate or sole source of knowledge and the physical world is not the only world there is.

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Technical Research Paper

Emergentism and the Rejection of Spirit Entities: A Response to Christian Physicalists

Aug. 10, 2011 from Answers Research Journal

Emergentism defies commonsense; there is also no scientific evidence that something material could produce an entity of a kind radically different from itself.

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Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

Semantics Don’t Change Truth: The social motivations behind new definitions

Nov. 10, 2010 from Answers in Depth

No matter how many times man redefines human life, God’s truth doesn’t change.

Inorganic Matter to Unicellular Life-Forms

July 17, 2010

Couldn’t inorganic matter have easily evolved to become simple, unicellular life-forms? If only (for evolutionists) it were so simple!

Technical Research Paper

Hebrew Metaphysic

Dec. 31, 2008 from Answers Research Journal

Metaphysical development in Hebrew biblical texts is especially elucidated through a series of word studies with a shifting emphasis that each cross-pollinates the others.

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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.

Technical Research Paper

‘Life’ According to the Bible, and the Scientific Evidence

Aug. 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).