The Chemical Doctor's Definition and Origin Of Life
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Karl Note: Here is a Godless agent of Wundt and Rockefeller, describing "life" as having arisen from a sea of chemicals.
Wow!
Let's go out and mix some chemicals.
 Origin of Life The sun and its planets formed between 5 and 4.6 billion years ago as matter in our solar system began to coalesce because of gravity. By about 3.9 billion years ago, the Earth had an atmosphere that contained the right mix of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen to allow for the creation of life. Scientists believe that the energy from heat, lightning, or radioactive elements caused the formation of complex proteins and nucleic acids into strands of replicating genetic code. These molecules then organized and evolved to form the first simple forms of life. At 3.8 billion years ago, conditions became right for the fossilization of the Earth's early cellular life forms. These fossilized cells resemble present day cyanobacteria. Such cells are known as prokaryotes. Prokaryote cells are very simple, containing few specialized cellular structures and their DNA is not surrounded by a membranous envelope. The more complex cells of animals and plants, known as eukaryotes, first showed up about 2.1 billion year ago. Eukaryotes have a membrane-bound nucleus and many specialized structures located within their cell boundary. By 680 million years ago, eukaryotic cells were beginning to organize themselves into multicellular organisms. Starting at about 570 million years ago an enormous diversification of multicellular life occurred known as the Cambrian explosion. During this period all but one modern phylum of animal life made its first appearance on the Earth. Table 9a-1 describes the approximate time of origin of the Earth' s major groups of plants and animals.
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Table 9a-1: Time of origin of some major plant and animal groups.
| Organism Group | Time of Origin |
| Marine Invertebrates | 570 Million Years Ago |
| Fish | 505 Million Years Ago |
| Land Plants | 438 Million Years Ago |
| Amphibians | 408 Million Years Ago |
| Reptiles | 320 Million Years Ago |
| Mammals | 208 Million Years Ago |
| Flowering Plants (Angiosperms) | 140 Million Years Ago |
| Hominid Line Begins Its Evolution | 20-15 Million Years Ago |
Definition of Life
Scientists currently recognize four groups of biological entities:
Archaea - are a group of recently discovered organisms that sometimes live in extremely hostile habitats like thermal volcanic vents, saline pools, and hot springs. Archaea are single-celled organisms that are similar in appearance to bacteria. However, they are biochemically and genetically very different from bacteria. Many books and other forms of scientific literature refer to them as archaebacteria.
Bacteria - are simple single-celled organisms that generally lack chlorophyll (an exception is cyanobacteria (see WWW Link). Bacteria have a prokaryote cell type. They also generally obtain energy for survival through the breakdown of organic matter via fermentation and respiration. Bacteria such as Rhizobium spp. and cyanobacteria (see WWW Link) play an important role in the fixing of atmospheric nitrogen. Without these bacteria ecosystems would be severely short of nitrogen for plant and animal growth. The oldest fossils of life on Earth are bacteria-like organisms.
Eukaryota - are all organisms with a eukaryote cell type. This group of life includes the kingdoms Protista, Fungi, Animalia, and Plantae.
Viruses - are fragments of DNA or RNA that depend on host cells that they infect for their reproduction. They are not cells. Viruses are thought to be parts of the genetic code that originated from either eukaryote or prokaryote cells. These code fragments contain enough genetic information for self-existence. At times, viruses are metabolically inert and technically non-living. Viruses cause a variety of diseases in eukaryote organisms. In humans they can cause smallpox, chicken pox, influenza, shingles, herpes, polio, ebola, AIDS, rabies, and some types of cancer.
The four main types of biological entities described above share some unique characteristics that can allow us to distinguish them from non-living things. These characteristics are:
(1). Organisms tend to be complex and highly organized. Chemicals found within their bodies are synthesized through metabolic processes into structures that have defined purposes. Cells and their various organelles are examples of such structures. Cells are also the basic functioning unit of life. Cells are often organized into organs to create higher levels of complexity and function.
(2). Living things have the ability to take energy from their environment and change it from one form to another. This energy is usually used to facilitate their growth and reproduction. We call the process that allows for this facilitation metabolism.
(3). Organisms tend to be homeostatic. In other words, they regulate their bodies and other internal structures to certain normal parameters.
(4). Living creatures respond to stimuli. Cues in their environment cause them to react through behavior, metabolism, and physiological change.
(5). Living things reproduce themselves by making copies of themselves. Reproduction can either be sexual or asexual. Sexual reproduction involves the fusing of haploid genetic material from two individuals. This process creates populations with much greater genetic diversity.
(6). Organisms tend to grow and develop. Growth involves the conversion of consumed materials into biomass, new individuals, and waste.
(7). Life adapts and evolves in step with external changes in the environment through mutation and natural selection. This process acts over relatively long periods of time.
Karl Note: The original assertion that "life" came from a sea of chemicals is pure Wundtian psychology, put into the mainstream of Western consciousness by John D. Rockefeller. It is utterly amazing that such tripe could be described in such esoteric terms, and look so imposing.
This concept is what has led to the drugged culture which we have today.
Incidentally, the above describes a "virus" as being a "life form," but the actions of a life form do not fit a virus. There is no person who seriously claims that a virus can more, take in energy, reproduce, or any of the actions of life. But, it is constantly put into that category so as to further confuse the truth.
Here is another attempt to define the term:
What is life?
Here are several definitions of life:
1. The duration of the earthly existence of an individual
2. The course of existence: the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual: the totality of actions and occurrences constituting an individual experience
3. The principle or force by which animals and plants are maintained in the performance of their functions and which distinguishes by its presence animate from inanimate matter
4. The quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body or purely chemical matter
The first definition suggests that merely to exist as an individual is all that is required. Does that mean that a rock, separate from all others, is alive? Intuitively we know that this is not true, that the rock is nonliving matter; yet it is individual. If you examine a rock closely, you can distinguish it from a handful or even a bucket full of rocks. So merely being an individual doesn't work from the scientific point of view.
The second definition may help us somewhat: the course of existence - the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual. In this definition, it is not enough to simply be an individual, but one must be able to experience the earthly existence and to act. A rock is incapable of mental experiences so by this definition it is inanimate, but what of bacteria? a guppy? Both can act, both experience a sequence of physical events, but do they really have mental experiences? Again, intuitively we know that both are alive, but by this definition, they are not.
Let's move to the third definition. Here we have a 'force by which animals and plants maintain the performance of their functions.' So a living organism must have a function and must be able to maintain that function through some 'force'. What function does a rock have? It is there, sitting on the table. What of the guppy? What function does it have? What is this 'force' that is offered as a distinguishing factor between the animate and the inanimate?
And finally we have a 'quality' that separates vital, functional being from nonliving, inanimate matter. What is meant by vitality? Again we have the word function(al). How does this apply to the rock? Does a rock have vitality? Does a guppy?
Merriam-Webster defines vital as
1 a : existing as a manifestation of life b :
concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life <vital organs>
<blood and other vital fluids>
2 : full of life and vigor
So vital isn't going to answer our question. What is this quality that this definition is speaking of? What is the 'force' definition three is referring to? Can we create a more scientific definition of what life is?
What is biochemistry?
Now that we have a tentative definition of life. Can we define what biochemistry ought to be?
Biochemistry is the combination of the
words: biology and chemistry. Biology is the study of living organisms whereas
chemistry is the science that deals with the composition, structure, and
properties of substances and the transformations that they undergo.
Combined, biochemistry must be the application of chemistry to the study of life. Merriam-Webster describes biochemistry as:
1 : chemistry that deals with the chemical
compounds and processes occurring in organisms
2 : the chemical characteristics and reactions of a particular living system
or biological substance (as chlorophyll)
How can biochemistry be used to distinguish animate from inanimate matter? Assume that you are the biochemist on the first manned space expedition to Jupiter's moon Europa. How would you seek out new lifeforms? What criteria would you use to determine if there is anything alive on that moon?
Here's what Carl Sagan had to say about life in his book Cosmos: "The essence of life is not so much the atoms and simple molecules that make us up, as the way in which they are put together.
Pure Bosh! Karl Loren
You have to go back many years for a dictionary that was not influenced by Wundt and Rockefeller.
I am found of collecting old dictionaries -- partly to get early views on definitions.
My oldest dictionary is a Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1894. My version is copyright 1890.
The word "life" has 1 1/2 columns of definitions, some 18 separate definitions, then more with "life" as part of a compound word.
Here is the primary one of interest:
2. The animation of the body, in animals and man, by the vital principal or the animal soul.
Karl: I'm reminded that this definition probably comes from Aristotle, whose concepts are described this way:
Aristotle believes that human beings have three parts to their psychologies, what he calls three “souls”: the vegetative soul (that unconscious part that takes care of autonomic functions such as digestion and circulation), the animal soul (that conscious part that feels emotions, desires, and appetites), and the rational soul (that part that thinks, evaluates, judges, forms beliefs, etc.). (source on a Karl Loren Web Page)
You see, perhaps, why I like old dictionaries. This definition from Aristotle at least appears in the dictionary in 1894, if not today.
I won't publish more of the 18 definitions. In my opinion they are not precision definitions.
Another favorite reference for me is Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Twenty-sixth Edition, copyright 1981.
Life
The aggregate of vital phenomena; a certain peculiar stimulated condition of organized matter; that obscure principle whereby organized beings are peculiarly endowed with certain powers and functions not associated with inorganic matter. Generally, living things share, in varying degrees, the following characteristics: organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction and adaptation.
The use, above, of the word "inorganic" suggests here "non-living" whereas "organic" would seem to mean "from a living origin." The definition or "organic" originally meant coming from a living origin, but was changed because of John D. Rockefellers generally successful effort to redefine the word "organic" as merely containing carbon. Certainly everything containing carbon may now be classified as organic, but not all of these substances arose from a living origin. Click here for more on the Rockefeller story.
This Dorland's definition is still under the influence of Aristotle, when these compound words are defined. There does not appear to be any assertion of the man-from-mud theory put forth as fact by Dr. Wundt and now found to be commonly accepted by many.
Vegetative Life
that which is manifested in automatic acts requisite for the maintenance of the individual and the propagation of the species.
Animal Life
vegetative life conjoined with the employment of the senses and with spontaneous movements
Intellectual, Mental & Psychic Life
that which is attended by conscious exercise of feelings, impulses and by will, and reason.
Life is a peculiar item when it seems to avoid any definition that can be used in material science. I have a very satisfactory and full understanding of this word. This is the reason I am able to see, and then describe a cancer prevention technology. I am NOT blinded by the false notion that man arose from a sea of chemicals, or that chemical drugs are senior to life. Karl Loren
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