Topic: Theories of Origin of Life
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LUNG1954

Mon 09/05/22 02:42 AM

I. Theory of special creation:
It states: Living organisms were formed on our planet by supernatural power called God or Creator.
II. Abiogenesis or Theory of Spontaneous Creation or Autobiogenesis:
It was proposed by Von Helmont (1577-1644) and states that life originated abiogenetically from non-living decaying and rotting matter like straw, mud, etc. But abiogenesis was experimentally rejected by Francisco Redi (1668 A.D.).
III. Biogenesis (omne vivum ex vivo):
It states life arises from pre-existing life only.
IV. Cosmozoic or Extraterrestrial or Interplanetary or Panspermiatic theory:
It was proposed by Richter (1865 A.D.) and was supported by Arrhenius (1908 A.D.). It states that life came on the earth from some other planet in the form of seed or spore called panspermia.
But it could not explain the mechanism by which panspermia survived adverse conditions (very low temperature, lack of atmosphere, utter dryness and lethal and UV-cosmic radiations) of interplanetary space during its migration.

https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/evolution/origin-of-life-4-important-theories-regarding-the-origin-of-life-biology/27274
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LUNG1954

Wed 09/07/22 01:22 AM

A New Physics Theory of Life
The new theory according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature
From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. Jeremy England, a 31-year-old assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains this capacity. The formula, based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy. This could mean that under certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.
England’s theory is meant to underlie, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection
His idea, has sparked controversy among his colleagues, who see it as either tenuous or a potential breakthrough, or both.
Eugene Shakhnovich, a professor of chemistry, at Harvard University, is not convinced. He said; “Jeremy’s ideas are interesting and potentially promising, but at this point are extremely speculative, especially as applied to life phenomena”.
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LUNG1954

Wed 09/07/22 11:50 PM

God created the universe and everything in it and created life. The role of scientists is to discover these creatures and the laws that God placed in nature. They did not create them, but they searched in order to understand and use them in their inventions. Therefore, many scholars from different disciplines believe in the existence of God the Creator, including, for example:
Robert Boyle, Johannes Kepler, and Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric generator and electric transformer. Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, Matthew Maury a pioneer in oceanography, James Joule, a physicist, Louis Pasteur, founder of microbiology, Michael Danton in the research of human molecular genetic engineering, physicist Paul Davies and the founder of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein who said: “Who works Well in the scientific field, reaches the conviction that all the laws of the universe prove the existence of a spirit much larger than the human spirit, and we must all feel small before Him.”
The continuous expansion of the universe is evidence that God created it because He said in the Quran more than 1400 years ago: “We built the heaven with might, and We widely extended it.”

The universe obeys certain rules—laws to which all things must adhere. These laws are precise, and many of them are mathematical in nature.
But, where did these laws come from, and why do they exist? If the universe were merely the accidental by-product of a big bang, then why should it obey orderly principles—or any principles at all for that matter? Such laws are consistent with biblical creation. Natural laws exist because the universe has a Creator God who is logical and has imposed order on His universe (Genesis 1:1). Everything in the universe, every plant and animal, every rock, every particle of matter or light wave, is bound by laws which it has no choice but to obey. The Bible tells us that there are laws of nature—“ordinances of heaven and earth” (Jeremiah 33:25). These laws describe the way God normally accomplishes His will in the universe.

https://answersingenesis.org/is-god-real/god-natural-law/
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LUNG1954

Fri 09/09/22 01:29 AM

The story of Noah and the Flood, Genesis: 6-9, is one of the best known stories in the Bible. God tells Noah to build an ark and fill it with every species on the earth. When the ark is full, a flood inundates the earth. Only Noah and those on his ark survive.
God said in the Quran: ‘Noah called to Us, and We are the Best to answer. We saved him and his people from the great distress, and We made his offspring the survivors. And We let it remain upon him in the latter: 'Peace be upon Noah among all the worlds.' As such We recompense the gooddoers, he was one of Our believing worshipers. Afterwards We drowned the others.’’
Evidence for a Flood

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/evidence-for-a-flood-102813115/

The scientific version of Noah's flood actually starts long before that, back during the last great glaciation some 20,000 years ago.
Two geologists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have offered a new theory of what happened next. William Ryan and Walter Pitman, in Noah's Flood (Simon & Schuster), postulate that as time went on, the world warmed, the glaciers retreated and meltwater from the European glaciers began to flow north into the North Sea, depriving the Black Sea of its main source of replenishment. The level of the Black Sea began to drop, and most of the area around its northern boundary — the area adjacent to present-day Crimea and the Sea of Azov — became dry land. At this point, the level of the Black Sea was several hundred feet below that of the Mediterranean, and the two were separated by the barrier of the Bosporus, then dry land. This situation, with the world ocean rising while the Black Sea was falling, could not last forever. Eventually, like a bathtub overflowing, the Mediterranean had to pour through into the Black Sea basin.

The idea that ocean basins can flood catastrophically during periods of rising sea levels is nothing new in geology. Five million years ago, long before there were any humans around, just such an event occurred. The level of the Atlantic Ocean had dropped, or some tectonic event had occurred, with the result that water could no longer get through, and the Mediterranean gradually shrank down to a desert spotted with a few salty bits of ocean. Subsequently, when either the Atlantic rose again or another geological change took place, ocean water began pouring back into the former sea. The basin filled, and the present-day Mediterranean was created.
In addition, Pitman and Ryan point out what archaeologists who study ancient civilizations have known for a long time: that at roughly the time of the flood, a number of people and new customs suddenly appeared in places as far apart as Egypt and the foothills of the Himalayas, Prague and Paris. The people included speakers of Indo-European, the language from which most modern European and Indian languages are derived. Pitman and Ryan suggest that these people might, in fact, represent a diaspora of Black Sea farmers who were driven from their homes by the flood, and that the flood itself might have been the cause of the breakup of Indo-European languages.