Regards, dear brothers and friends of Steemchurch. My best wishes to all.
Welcome once again to my blog.
My message for today is about the origin of life, a controversial topic in science and in religion.
Since we have use of reason we have heard, in addition to teaching us at school that life has originated by evolution. Today there are different theories that try to explain the way in which living beings began to populate the world in which we find ourselves.
In this order of ideas we find that the origin of the current human species refers to two opposing perspectives. For most of humanity, the mythical and religious vision, anthropogony, was the most accepted, despite not having physical evidence, and conceived in general, the origin of man as an act of will of various gods.
However, thanks to the advance of science, there was a change of vision, accepting the scientific vision that places the human species as one more in the biological evolution of the living organisms of the earth, although this postulation is subject to constant research in the multiple scientific disciplines.
(Taken from manual for the teacher "ocean collection" education for life)
More than 2,700 million years ago, the most widespread theory suggests that it was formed in the marine environment, from a "prebiotic soup of organic compounds that could be formed in such conditions evolving and getting over time a greater degree of self organization.
There are also other theories that involve some type of extraterrestrial origin and others that start from the hypothesis of the existence of some intelligent power capable of generating life.
As well as the theory formulated about the possibility that the universe began with the Big Bang, or the great explosion.
What is the big bang?
It is a cosmological model that states that the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand to this day.
One of the theories most studied by man at the beginning has been the theory of Charles Darwin.
Since he published his works, a large amount of data has been accumulating on the fact of evolution. This theory produced a great impact on the society of his time, generating great controversy in various social areas, as his theory proposes a non-supernatural origin of life and species.
This theory began in 1859 when Darwin published the book "The origin of species by means of natural selection", which means, according to this theory is a consequence of the fact that plants and animals enter into competition because their reproductive capacity it is much larger than the amount of food available; then natural selection acts on the inheritable variations, which in this case would be the mutations, which are the raw material for the selection
In general, the specific aspects of the transformation of the species, provide evidence of evolution: both paleontological and anatomical, embryological, biochemical, genetic ...
All the known facts related to evolution lead us to think that life has originated once, especially if we take into account the biochemical homogeneity of living beings.
a process so original and so far away in time, operating on organisms as simple as those that we must imagine that populated the primitive seas, is forcibly something that is not possible to know with precision, and insofar as it is a process historical, the formulations that can be made about it are only plausible.
In this order of ideas it is important to highlight that despite having several theories about the origin of life, one of the most successful by science so far, is the hypothesis of the Russian Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparín, (biologist and biochemist) who made important advances on the issue raised and noted:
"The origin of life is based on the conditions of the primitive earth, on the interaction capacity of the chemical elements that give rise to more complex compounds, and on the gradual evolution of inorganic to organic matter, until the first cells "
It raised the existence of a series of evolutionary processes that at the origin of life were superimposed and developed at the same time.
(information taken from my didactic support material "visual consultant of the teacher in biological sciences).
However, they continue to formulate more explanations that I believe worth mentioning in the world of science, and we have even studied, discussed, in my case with students but to summarize these theories did not mention, although they are still important for reflection and the understanding of life.
To all this arises the key question of the subject - Why there are so many theories, and although there are investigations that argue certain things, because there are still doubts and the same science does not stop to investigate?
Certainly many believe that life started from evolution, others say that God started creation and then let evolution do the rest. In other cases science has also argued certain things that have actually happened.
I am one of the many people in the world who believe in science, because in a certain way there is a relationship between God and science; for God himself is the master of science, although it seems contradictory to some.
God is not against science, he wants us to use our reasoning and intelligence to determine that he is the creator of life, he encourages us to examine the evidence, to retain the good. There are many atheistic or agnostic scientists, there are also others who take a deist view of God, where they affirm that God exists, but is not involved in the world.
THERE IS A NATURAL LAW THAT IGNORE SCIENCE
In nature there is a law that has never been destroyed. This law is a scientific fact, not only in theory, and is ignored by scientific materialists in the search for the origin of life. The law is biogenesis - where he explains that "life comes only from life". postulated by Louis Pasteur.
This law is related to the revelation of God in the Bible; as described in the first chapters of Genesis.
I tell you beloved brothers and friends, that for me, this is a very exciting topic discussed hundreds of times in a classroom, where there are diverse opinions centered on evolutionary theories and others based on different beliefs according to the contexts that are they study
However, I have only one conviction, and that is what the Bible tells me about creation. In the first two chapters of the Bible we find the origin of the universe and of man, and I want to tell you that the Bible is not a treatise on science, nor a philosophical exposition, it is the history of faith of the man of life itself.
The living God is the origin of life. Said by the same Louis Pasteur when he spoke of "biogenesis", he was unintentionally saying "God is the origin of life".
In this regard the psalmist David said:
You created my entrails; You formed me in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am an admirable creation, your works are wonderful, and this I know very well! (Psalm 139: 13-14)
God created the universe and man with a word. He ordered and there were stars and planets, he formed the world with simple orders. God began the process of creation without anything existing before. It started with nothing. With the presence of the holy spirit and the entrance of his word, the creation took place. From chaos and darkness, brought order, light, life and beauty, said "be done ..." and it was (Genesis 1: 1-2)
By the word of the Lord the heavens were created, and by the breath of his mouth, the stars (Psalm 33: 6)
Do not you know? Have not you heard? The Lord is the eternal God, creator of the ends of the earth. He does not get tired or fatigued, and his intelligence is unfathomable (Isaiah 40:28)
God became personally involved in creating humans, this makes us imagine our heavenly father leaning on the potter's wheel, forming clay figures with the model He has in his mind.
The final touch is to breathe in that figure his breath of life, God was personally involved from the very beginning.
And it also gave us the capacity for understanding, intelligence ... we are bearers of the image of God. "And said:" Let us make man in our image and likeness "(Genesis 1:26)
God gave Solomon wisdom to reason, as he has given to all his creation, a consistent and rational approach to be used in a power of reasoning, in the challenges and opinions of the world.
And the Bible tells us in the book of (Ecclesiastes 7:25)
"I turned and fixed my heart to know and examine and inquest wisdom and reason, and to know the wickedness of foolishness and the delirium of error."
We have Biblical and spiritual arguments to know that we are God's creation. The bible that is the word of God shows us when we experience his presence in our lives. God for many is a stranger, and does not even exist, however they can not understand that God is real, that he is their creator, that He is always present when we give him the place of omniscience and omnipresence in our lives.
GOD IS THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE AND OF MAN!
Therefore science continues searching and researching deeply to find arguments, but its search is not satiated, nor is it concrete, because it lacks the "faith" to believe that they are God's workmanship.
BLESSINGS.
