In some way, the beginnings of the cosmos were already oriented toward the
eventual emergence of living and conscious beings who would be aware of the universe.
It points to a rapid
emergence of life on Earth and supports the search for life in similarly ancient rocks on Mars,» Martin Van Kranendonk, a professor at the University of New South Wales and a co-author of the study, said in a statement.
The fossils, which date back 3.7 billion years and predate the world's previous oldest stromatolite fossils, could point to
rapid emergence of life on a young Earth.
The theory most scientists currently favor for the origins of life is called «abiogenesis,» the
gradual emergence of life on Earth from non-living matter.
Evolution does not deal with the Big - Bang, it does not deal with the
initial emergence of life, it only deals the what happened after wards and continues to happen today.
This suggests that there is a strong heat source in the interior of Enceladus, an additional factor supporting the
possible emergence of life in its ocean.
Because Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago and oceans formed about 4.4 billion years ago, if the researchers» estimates for the fossils» ages are correct, it would mean there was «an almost
instantaneous emergence of life.»
But what role did these interactions play in the
very emergence of life, in its Darwinian evolution and complexification?
Research in probiotic biology has been accelerating because of recent advances and novel omics and
emergence of live cell — based technologies.
«We have a lot of evidence with Mimivirus that the virus phylum is at least as oldas the other branches of life and that viruses were involved very early on in the
evolutionary emergence of life.»
To an increasing number of scientists today, it is appearing more and more remarkable that the physical conditions in the universe were from the beginning configured in such a way as to make the
eventual emergence of life and mind a relatively probable development.
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«The still nameless planet is believed to be Earth - like and orbits at a distance to Proxima Centauri that could allow it to have liquid water on its surface — an important requirement for
the emergence of life.»
Grayling responds in a similar fashion to other modern evidences for God — for instance, the current scientific view that the universe is finely tuned to allow for
the emergence of life.
The emergence of the living from the inorganic may be viewed as a random variation, but it certainly has nothing to do with the survival of the fittest.
Recently, Fred Hoyle has written, in Evolution from Space, that the conjunction of circumstances required for
the emergence of life is so improbable, that it is statistically virtually impossible that life could have originated on this planet.
In fact allowances can also thus be made for the role of chance in
the emergence of life and in the mutations that are required for the evolution of new species.
Advances in cosmological science over the latter half of the 20th century began to reveal that when the universe came into existence, (more on that later), the fundamental forces it was birthed with were apparently «fine - tuned» to allow for
the emergence of life.
The emergence of life comes chronologically billions of years after the birth of matter.
The extraordinary odds that seem to be involved for the first DNA molecule to come into existence; the unusually well - suited planet we live on to allow for
the emergence of life, and so the list goes on.
Viewed in this light, we may see the birth and deaths of stars,
the emergence of life, its moments of complexification, and the eventual rise of consciousness as sacramental evidence of revelation's promise no less significant than God's calling of Abraham and the prophets.
What he explained was not how there is cosmic order, with physical, chemical, astronomical laws; he assumed all that, and then explained how
the emergence of living forms, vegetable and animal, could have occurred.
Both kinds of stars are required for
the emergence of life.
The process of material evolution develops from the Big Bang onwards through to
the emergence of life (I suppose that would also be a transitional moment).
We see a teleological hierarchy and chain of emergence from quantised physics, giving rise to stable chemistry, enabling the nearly miraculous properties of carbon and biochemistry, providing the material basis for
the emergence of life with its own ontological hierarchy of metabolic (plant), sensitive (animal), and rational (human) existence.
Reflecting upon
this emergence of living organisms and finally man, one can not help but ask what is really going on here?
The emergence of life is perhaps the single most dramatic example on this planet, yet even life also requires a material substratum of organic macromolecules out of which this radically novel form of existence could emerge.
But if there were really no answer we should be obliged to conclude that, although the course of Evolution was «directed» up to
the emergence of Life, beyond that point all that goes on is a scattering m every direction.
All we need to do is notice that since the «Big Bang» occurred fifteen or twenty billion years ago some momentous things have happened, in particular
the emergence of life and mind on our planet (and perhaps elsewhere).
The emergence of life and consciousness in the evolutionary process is no longer sheer mystery.
Where the problem is recognized it is usually in relation to two «events» in evolutionary history:
the emergence of life and the emergence of mind.
Judging the book by its title, I was expecting just another account of the various «coincidences» found in the fundamental laws and constants of the universe, which seem amazingly carefully chosen to allow
the emergence of life, and which therefore point to the existence of a Cosmic Designer who brought the world into existence for just that purpose.
Along with a general aesthetic enrichment of the universe by
the emergence of life and consciousness there has appeared a fragility that is constantly exposed to the entropic tendencies of physical reality.
Is
the emergence of life anything more than a cosmic accident?