On Sat, 9/18/10, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão wrote: > > May I know under which branch of Science is ‘Life’ > explained and where? I would very much love to have this > knowledge. >
Santosh wrote: Life as a natural phenomenon is explained by a science called Biology. 1. What is the chemical composition of a living cell? 2. How do these chemicals interact within the living cell to keep it alive? 3. What physical and chemical processes underlie the functioning of a living organism? 4. How are the chemicals responsible for all the natural processes that sustain living cells within living organisms synthesized, broken down and replenished? 5. How is energy harnessed, stored and utilized for sustaining living processes? 6. What chemical mechanisms determine the structure and function of living cells and organisms, and how? **Darwinian evolution and Christianity are not in conflict: Charles Darwin has not expelled God from the Universe, on the contrary has shed indirectly more light on theistic evolution: God is the creator ex nihilo and the Sustainer. God is Transcendent Creator of the Universe, its existence and its fundamental laws. He is the immanent, continuous Creator, acting everywhere in, with, and through natural processes to bring about physical and biological complexity. God works within evolution at the genetic level, through love, he gives the world freedom to evolve. There is transition in humanity to the “spiritual” (including self-awareness, moral conscience and freedom), without falling into ontological dualism nor interventionism. It does not conflict with the evolutionary science. Spiritual cannot be detected through scientific gadgets. In short, we find God’s creative and providential action in the world. Evolution is theistic. The world is within God, while God infinitely transcends the world. This is the “pan-en-theistic” theology that does not conflict with Science. It cannot be encompassed by Science: the finite human mind cannot comprehend the Infinite God. It is the role of philosophy and theology to discover humanity’s ultimate meaning. Regards. Fr.Ivo
