My own simple analysis of life is as follows:
Life cannot come from non-life,
therefore life must have been here all along.
That means, life exists outside and independent of the physical dimension
which is believed to have a beginning, and possibly an end, in time.
As only life can create life, it means "before" or more accurately, outside, space-time
life was, or more correctly, IS.
That "pre-existing"* Life could be called God but the problem with that word is that it has been overlayed with centuries of religious thought. I continue to use it for want of a better term and because it is at least a word that people recognize as pointing beyond this limited physical dimension.
Just because pre-existing Life is "believed" (I would say, known) to exist that doesn't means this Life has anything in common with popular religious notions of God. As many are aware, these pre-existing notions have more to do with human foibles that any believable characteristic of the one great, always existing Life, which would need to be bigger in scope than all of us can imagine.
*As time was created with the physical universe it makes more sense to say "existing" or "always existing" to describe Life outside this limited physical dimension.
Sharka Todd
Life cannot come from non-life,
therefore life must have been here all along.
That means, life exists outside and independent of the physical dimension
which is believed to have a beginning, and possibly an end, in time.
As only life can create life, it means "before" or more accurately, outside, space-time
life was, or more correctly, IS.
That "pre-existing"* Life could be called God but the problem with that word is that it has been overlayed with centuries of religious thought. I continue to use it for want of a better term and because it is at least a word that people recognize as pointing beyond this limited physical dimension.
Just because pre-existing Life is "believed" (I would say, known) to exist that doesn't means this Life has anything in common with popular religious notions of God. As many are aware, these pre-existing notions have more to do with human foibles that any believable characteristic of the one great, always existing Life, which would need to be bigger in scope than all of us can imagine.
*As time was created with the physical universe it makes more sense to say "existing" or "always existing" to describe Life outside this limited physical dimension.
Sharka Todd