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What is the scientific reason life exists, or what scientific laws have "pushed" life into existence, on this one planet?
Sure there are scientific causes for life to form. After all, it exists.
My answers will be very simple and incomplete since I have only an interested layperson's knowledge of science. But on that understanding, and on the understanding that we are dealing with physical causes---not purpose--here goes.
The questions above are almost all explained by the possession, gain or loss of energy. An additional factor is gravity.
Water freezes when it loses energy to the point where it cannot remain in a liquid state. The atoms slow down and form bonds to make crystals. (Note that the atoms never stop moving, but they can slow down quite a bit.)
The sun is hot because the pressure of gravity on the sun generates huge amounts of heat. At the core of the sun, the pressure is sufficient to strip atoms of their electrons and initiate atomic fusion; this also increases the store of energy and keeps the sun hot.
Planetary orbits are a consequence of the force of gravity.
Rocks get warm in the sun because they absorb the radiant energy of the sun which is transferred to the atoms in the rock, increasing their energy and therefore their temperature.
I don't know that life did form from rock. I have heard that rock (in particular clay substrates) may have helped to incubate early life, but not that life formed from rock.
Complex biochemistry.
It is probably not so much properties of matter per se, but properties under certain conditions. For example, so far as we know life has only formed in conditions which allow for water to remain in a liquid state. That demands a certain temperature range. Available organic matter seems to be a pre-condition as well.
The next four are beyond me. You will need to inquire of the relevant experts in those fields. However, I doubt scientists would speak of anything suggesting that life "should" form. Only in terms of conditions allowing the possibility that life may form.
Sure there are scientific causes for life to form. After all, it exists. And the whole field of abiogenesis is quite exciting. Here is a recent new wrinkle on the interactions which brought about life: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150601172834.htm
You would think so.
No one has even hinted
on a theoretical cause yet.
Every effect has a cause.
I'm not concerned about the process.
I'm asking what would cause the process to form?
Of what benefit is living to the non-living?
That's getting better. Why would life form from non-living matter?
For what reason might it form?
It seems to have infinite complexity and amazing adaptability.
What is pushing for that to happen?
Why does it fight against all efforts to kill it?
What is motivating life to keep on, keeping on?
Amen!The purpose of life is not scientific. Scientific study is man's attempt to discover and explain what God has created, and they get it wrong much of the time. The purpose of life is to please God.
That is a great explanation for God's "motivation."
But if we can't test out His behavior with social experiments
then we can't provide a scientific answer.
Prayer studies have given us no conclusive results.
this was so because the (taught) faith and prayer were not right enough
Blessings
That may be true, but the fact remains that prayer has not
produced repeatable results in controlled studies.
In my own experiences, God gives the correct prayer at the
perfect moment, rather than the perfect response to our
decision to ask for a response on our time table.
One purpose of life is to increase entropy.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-physics-theory-of-life/
Another is to produce a species that can prevent the next mass extinction.
And cause it's own, perhaps? Entropy is the idea that everything degrades, that there is no improvement in the universe. It's why evolution is the bastard child of science- completely alien to the logic of reality.
Closed versus open systems and entropy. Earth is not a closed system, so evolution is not prohibited by that law.
Why must God always do everything while the spiritual servants always be idle?!, what are the spiritual servants for?!
Closed versus open systems and entropy. Earth is not a closed system, so evolution is not prohibited by that law.
Are you saying that evolution is a thermal system?
Or is it an energy conservation system?
Or is it a chemical system?
What is driving or governing evolution?
Is there some known law it follows?
No. I am rebutting the creationist notion that evolution violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The existence of matter and energy violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
If there is some Thermodynamic law involved in evolution, then please cite the reference(s).
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