Scientifically speaking, What is the Purpose of Life?

[SkyWriting]

You have two possibilities. Either the origin of like was just a fluke, and there are more than enough planets in the universe for that fluke to occur on at least one of them, or else it was intended by God, and not a fluke. Can you prove it either way? No.

Yes. By answering these questions, we form the basis of a platform for the scientific answer.

OK. What are the benefits of life over non-life?
What are the chemical advantages?
What scientific principal would cause life to form?
Why is life an advantage over non-life?
How does life benefit the earth?
What is the underlying reason for life to
chemically,
thermally,
or electrically exist?

 

[SkyWriting]

The strong anthropic principle (SAP) as explained by John D. Barrow and Frank Tipler.

The strong argument is a good one. If we accept that as fact,
now we need to answer my questions to support it.
According to "Strong" these questions have answers.

What are the benefits of life over non-life?
What are the chemical advantages?
What scientific principal would cause life to form?
Why is life an advantage over non-life?
How does life benefit the earth?
What is the underlying reason for life to
chemically,
thermally,
or electrically exist?

 

[lesliedellow]

Yes. By answering these questions, we form the basis of a platform for the scientific answer.

OK. What are the benefits of life over non-life?
What are the chemical advantages?
What scientific principal would cause life to form?
Why is life an advantage over non-life?
How does life benefit the earth?
What is the underlying reason for life to
chemically,
thermally,
or electrically exist?

You can't even begin to ask the type of questions which relate to Evolution, until you have organisms which are capable of evolving.

 

[SkyWriting]

You can't even begin to ask the type of questions which relate to Evolution until you have organisms capable of evolving.

Nobody has even mentioned evolution or organisms.

What are the benefits of life over non-life?
What are the chemical advantages?
What scientific principal would cause life to form?
Why is life an advantage over non-life?
How does life benefit the earth?
What is the underlying reason for life to
chemically,
thermally,
or electrically exist?

 

[Open Heart]

Yes. By answering these questions, we form the basis of a platform for the scientific answer.

OK. What are the benefits of life over non-life?
What are the chemical advantages?
What scientific principal would cause life to form?
Why is life an advantage over non-life?
How does life benefit the earth?
What is the underlying reason for life to
chemically,
thermally,
or electrically exist?

You are assuming that life has advantages. The fact that the universe is driven to produce sentient life doesn't necessarily spring for some sort of advantage, at least scientifically speaking. I'm sure we could come up with philosophical or religious arguments.

 

[SkyWriting]

You are assuming that life has advantages. The fact that the universe is driven to produce sentient life doesn't necessarily spring for some sort of advantage, at least scientifically speaking.

Yes, I'm afraid it does. Water doesn't flow uphill.

Scientifically, why did life happen?

 

[lesliedellow]

Nobody has even mentioned evolution or organisms

Not explicitly, but they are still asking the kind of questions which only relate to Evolution.

 

[lesliedellow]

Yes, I'm afraid it does. Water doesn't flow uphill.

Scientifically, why did life happen?

There was no reason for it to happen, unless you postulate a divine intention, and that is not a scientific question; it is a theological question.

 

[SkyWriting]

There was no reason for it to happen, unless you postulate a divine intention,......

But I am not. I am asking for a CAUSE AND EFFECT solution.

What CAUSED life to form?
What are the benefits of life over non-life?
What are the chemical advantages?
What scientific principal would cause life to form?
Why is life an advantage over non-life?
How does life benefit the earth?
What is the underlying reason for life to
chemically,
thermally,
or electrically exist?

 

[SkyWriting]

Not explicitly, but they are still asking the kind of questions which only relate to Evolution.

Fine.
Why did rock change?
What would cause chemicals to change into living organisms?
What changed in the cosmos for life to be the result?
Why have we been unable to duplicate the process of change?
Why are we unable to create life today?

 

[lesliedellow]

But I am not. I am asking for a CAUSE AND EFFECT solution.

The cause was a conglomeration of circumstances which happened to be in the right place, at the right time and under the right circumstances. There is no chance of tracing that in detail now, and even a general description of it would require a not yet available theory of abiogenesis.

 

[lesliedellow]

Fine.
Why did rock change?

In what way exactly? Because it was weathered?

What would cause chemicals to change into living organisms?

See previous post.

What changed in the cosmos for life to be the result?

Nothing changed in the cosmos.

Why are we unable to create life today?

You are giving a hostage to fortune. Attempts are being made to create "wet life", as it is called, right now.

 

[Open Heart]

Yes, I'm afraid it does. Water doesn't flow uphill.

Scientifically, why did life happen?

Well then apparently you have some ideas. Care to share?

 

[lesliedellow]

The purpose of the universe is to create life.

The universe may or may not have a purpose, but either way, science has nothing to say on the subject.

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.

Why isn't there anything about God in there? If the universe, or anything in it, has a purpose, then that purpose can only be God given.

 

[SkyWriting]

The cause was a conglomeration of circumstances which happened to be in the right place, at the right time and under the right circumstances. There is no chance of tracing that in detail now, and even a general description of it would require a not yet available theory of abiogenesis.

I don't need exact details. Either the process followed natural laws or it didn't.
Which natural laws suggest or hint or pave the path for life to naturally occur
where there was none before. And what natural laws sustain life and at what advantage?
What advantage does life have over non-life?
Life seems pretty persistent in the face of adversarial processes
like scarcity of resources, heat, cold, disease. What natural law
causes it to persist? Why doesn't everything just die?

 

[SkyWriting]

Well then apparently you have some ideas. Care to share?

Sure.
Life is scientifically impossible.
There are no such laws in nature to produce life.

 

[lesliedellow]

Sure. Life is scientifically impossible.

I must be dead then. I was labouring under the illusion that I was alive.

 

[SkyWriting]

In what way exactly? Because it was weathered?
Nothing changed in the cosmos.

Sure. Life occurred here. What scientific principle was followed when life occurred
on earth that we can't find anywhere else. And if we did find it elsewhere, why did it happen?

 

[PaladinValer]

Not what you claim....that's for sure.

Making things personal is a strong sign of being defensive because of a defeated belief.

Ask ANY PhD what they have studied. Its a Doctorate in Philosopy. PH D

Exactly; a PhD in Philosophy, not science. Fallacy of Appealing to False Authority.

Just because someone has a PhD in History doesn't make them an applicable authority on matters of, say, computer engineering. Unless that clearly expert historian is also an expert in computer engineering, what he or she thinks has no real authority, and elevating it to the expert opinion of a real computer engineer is absurd.

 

[SkyWriting]

Exactly; a PhD in Philosophy, not science.

Yes. Science is a Philosophy.

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