Why does the dust come to life

how you can specify this thread be totally viewed from the perspective of science - when science has no proof of how life began in the first place.

baddog1 wrote:

rosborne979 wrote:

As viewed by science. Everything in this thread is from the perspective of science. I think I stated that back in the beginning somewhere.

Sorry - did not see the qualification earlier in the thread. I'm unclear though - on how you can specify this thread be totally viewed from the perspective of science - when science has no proof of how life began in the first place.

If you go to bed at night and there's no snow on the ground, and you wake up the next morning and there's snow on the ground, then it's reasonable to assume that it snowed during the night. The implications of what science has discovered are clear.

...ThatI was refering to as a bad question not the topic question.

Now that is a good question!

I'm unclear though - on how you can specify this thread be totally viewed from the perspective of science - when science has no proof of how life began in the first place.

either a complete misunderstanding of the epistemology of science or, more likely, a thinly veiled attempt to use this notion to discredit anything the reader doesn't want to accept as true.

rosborne979 wrote:

baddog1 wrote:

rosborne979 wrote:

As viewed by science. Everything in this thread is from the perspective of science. I think I stated that back in the beginning somewhere.

Sorry - did not see the qualification earlier in the thread. I'm unclear though - on how you can specify this thread be totally viewed from the perspective of science - when science has no proof of how life began in the first place.

If you go to bed at night and there's no snow on the ground, and you wake up the next morning and there's snow on the ground, then it's reasonable to assume that it snowed during the night. The implications of what science has discovered are clear.

Bad analogy.

Coolwhip wrote:

Wow, what an unrelated post Miller. A fine way of dragging religion into this thread.

The basis of all life is the SOUL.

I'm posting this thread in the philosophy section because the subject I want to explore isn't about 'how' life began. It's about the deeper implications of realizing that the dust of this Universe, with no more assistance than simply being what it is, produces life and thought.

How does it make you feel knowing that the 'dust' from the ashes of ancient stars can do this? Does it change your view of the Universe to know this?

You have seen rivers flow and it seems to be living. What you see is a crude system in which energy is flowing. The rain that fell on the mountains collected in crevices and folds of the earth to form rivers. Life is similar except that the systems are organized in the molecular level to form proteins, bones, organs etc. thru the chain-forming properties of carbon. Somehow there is electrical activity and there is life. The whole universe goes thru cycles of order and disorder/chaos and from these cycles systems are formed and they seem to perpetuate themselves such as galaxies and solar systems. The properties of matter and the laws of nature enable it. By order and disorder I mean the big bang then hydrogen gases forming clusters and stars and galaxies. Exploding superstar providing the heavier elements to form dust and thus life.