关键词: Complexity Contingency Creation Evolutionism Origin of life Panspermia Prebioticsoup RNA world Science and faith Self-organization Synthetic biology Virus

来  源:   DOI:10.24875/AIDSRev.M24000071

Abstract:
The creation of the universe out of nothing (ex nihilo) is attributable to the eternal God. Would a direct divine intervention be needed for other singular events, such as the origin of life? Taking apart the human being, created to image and resemblance of God, we argue that current scientific knowledge allows us to rationally admit a continuity between the origins of the universe and the emergence of life on Earth. Although the irruption of living beings from inert matter is a leap or discontinuity in creation, a direct intervention of God would not be indispensable. The initial impulse of creation, with matter and energy in a space-time imbalance, could have triggered reactions between the different elements and a self-organization of metabolites, in accordance with natural physical-chemistry laws. This paradoxical increase of complexity ended with a transition from chemistry to biology. It happened when independence, metabolism, heritability, and life cycle took place in a protocellular unit. In this way, the emergence of life on earth could be part of an evolutionary dynamic of the timeless God\'s creative act.
摘要:
宇宙的创造无中生有(除nihilo)归因于永恒的上帝。其他奇异事件是否需要直接的神圣干预,比如生命的起源?拆开人类,被创造为上帝的形象和相似之处,我们认为,当前的科学知识使我们能够理性地承认宇宙起源与地球上生命出现之间的连续性。尽管生物从惰性物质中被破坏是创造的飞跃或不连续,上帝的直接干预不是必不可少的。最初的创作冲动,物质和能量处于时空不平衡状态,可能引发了不同元素之间的反应和代谢物的自组织,符合自然物理化学规律。这种矛盾的复杂性增加以从化学到生物学的过渡而结束。它发生在独立的时候,新陈代谢,遗传性,生命周期发生在原始细胞单元中。这样,地球上生命的出现可能是永恒的上帝创造行为的进化动力的一部分。
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