Scientifically speaking, What is the Purpose of Life?

[SkyWriting]

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

 

[ebia]

Science looks for causes and explanatory models, not goals.

 

[juvenissun]

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

Evolution would be the best answer to your question.
That reason of that is that your question is a wrong one. Science is the consequence of life, not the reason of life.

God kicks Adam out, and gives Adam science.

 

[PaladinValer]

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

The question is irrelevant to science.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

to lead others to God

 

[Willtor]

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

If you're looking for a statement of purpose for life, Ebia is right -- it isn't a scientific question. Science doesn't have the tools to validate or invalidate statements of purpose. There's no physical evidence and no experiment one can perform to get that kind of information. You need reason, philosophy, and theology to approach the question of purpose.

However, if, by "reason," you mean the mechanism by which it happened that life exists, there is a popular hypothesis about how such a thing could have happened. But if it happened as they think, it's unlikely to have left enough evidence to become a theory, so it will probably always remain an hypothesis.

 

[SkyWriting]

Science looks for causes and explanatory models, not goals.

Like this?

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

What are the causes and explanatory models?

 

[SkyWriting]

Evolution would be the best answer to your question.
That reason of that is that your question is a wrong one. Science is the consequence of life, not the reason of life.

Nope.

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

 

[SkyWriting]

If you're looking for a statement of purpose for life, Ebia is right -- it isn't a scientific question. Science doesn't have the tools to validate or invalidate statements of purpose. There's no physical evidence and no experiment one can perform to get that kind of information. You need reason, philosophy, and theology to approach the question of purpose.

However, if, by "reason," you mean the mechanism by which it happened that life exists, there is a popular hypothesis about how such a thing could have happened. But if it happened as they think, it's unlikely to have left enough evidence to become a theory, so it will probably always remain an hypothesis.

Nope. Looking for the scientific "cause."

 

[SkyWriting]

The question is irrelevant to science.

What are the causes and explanatory models that resulted in life?

 

[SkyWriting]

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

What is the chemical reason for life to exist?
The benefits of life?
The mechanism for life?
The processes that "call for" life?
The draw toward life?
The chemical, physical benefits of life over non-life?

 

[PaladinValer]

What are the causes and explanatory models that resulted in life?

That has nothing to do with purpose. Cause isn't purpose.

 

[Willtor]

Nope. Looking for the scientific "cause."

Unclear how this is a response to the post you cited.

 

[SkyWriting]

That has nothing to do with purpose. Cause isn't purpose.

What is the purpose of two eyes?
What is the purpose of two ears?
What is the purpose of your taste buds?
What is the purpose of having two legs?
What is the purpose of seeing?
What is the purpose of hearing?
What is the purpose of your tibia?
What is the purpose of reproduction?
What is the purpose of decay?

What is the purpose of life?

 

[PaladinValer]

What is the purpose of two eyes?
What is the purpose of two ears?
What is the purpose of your taste buds?
What is the purpose of having two legs?
What is the purpose of seeing?
What is the purpose of hearing?
What is the purpose of your tibia?
What is the purpose of reproduction?
What is the purpose of decay?

What is the purpose of life?

The purpose of life isn't something science cares about. How we have two eyes, two ears, etc, is answered by evolution. But questions of philosophy; questions of "why" and "purpose", they don't hold any interest to science.

That's where religion and philosophy come into play.

 

[SkyWriting]

The purpose of life isn't something science cares about. How we have two eyes, two ears, etc, is answered by evolution. But questions of philosophy; questions of "why" and "purpose", they don't hold any interest to science.

That's where religion and philosophy come into play.

Stop evading and answer theses scientific questions scientifically.
I'll lend you a hand the first two.

What is the purpose of two eyes?
What is the purpose of two ears?
What is the purpose of your taste buds?
What is the purpose of having two legs?
What is the purpose of seeing?
What is the purpose of hearing?
What is the purpose of your tibia?
What is the purpose of reproduction?

 

[Skala]

What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?

Nietche recognized that there is no purpose in life from an atheistic worldview.

You can't remove science from theology because God created science. He created the laws of nature. The study of the material world is by necessity the study of the handiwork of God.

 

[PaladinValer]

Stop evading and answer theses scientific questions scientifically.
I'll lend you a hand the first two.

What is the purpose of two eyes?
What is the purpose of two ears?
What is the purpose of your taste buds?
What is the purpose of having two legs?
What is the purpose of seeing?
What is the purpose of hearing?
What is the purpose of your tibia?
What is the purpose of reproduction?

There's no evading. And for the record, I'm a TE.

And those questions have nothing to do with the actual premise of your opening post. That these are confused with them shows a great deal of the real evasion going on here.

Science doesn't give a hoot about the purpose of life. It is outside its scope. It is a philosophical/religious question. All science cares about whether life is biogenetic or abiogenetic and how it diversified after its inception.

While the "New Atheists" have foolishly mishandled and maltreated science as badly as YECism has by making it into a religion, science in reality isn't what is claimed by either group.

 

[Open Heart]

I'm limiting my answer to the purely scientific (I believe the purpose of life to be much more than this...)

The purpose of the universe is to create life.
The purpose of life is to procreate and evolve sentient life.
The purpose of sentient life is to procreate and evolve moral life
The purpose of moral life is to procreate and evolve meaningful life.

 

[SkyWriting]

I'm limiting my answer to the purely scientific (I believe the purpose of life to be much more than this...)

The purpose of the universe is to create life.
The purpose of life is to procreate and evolve sentient life.
The purpose of sentient life is to procreate and evolve moral life
The purpose of moral life is to procreate and evolve meaningful life.

Nicely stated. Now why or how or in what why are any of those things beneficial to non-living matter
which (supposedly) is where all stuff comes from?