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: Received: 14 March 2023 / Approved: 23 March 2023 / Online: 23 March 2023 (13:40:22 CET)
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Ross, H. Biblical Perspectives as a Guide to Research on Life’s Origin and History. Preprints2023, 2023030415. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0415.v1
Ross, H. Biblical Perspectives as a Guide to Research on Life’s Origin and History. Preprints 2023, 2023030415. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0415.v1
Ross, H. Biblical Perspectives as a Guide to Research on Life’s Origin and History. Preprints2023, 2023030415. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0415.v1
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Ross, H. (2023). Biblical Perspectives as a Guide to Research on Life’s Origin and History. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202303.0415.v1
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Abstract
The more than thirty spacetime theorems developed over the past five decades establish that the universe and its spacetime dimensions have emerged from a cause/Causal Agent beyond the cosmos. Thus, to infer that this cause/Causal Agent may have intervened in the origin and history of Earth and Earth’s life resides well within the bounds of reason. Meanwhile, proponents of each of the three prevailing naturalistic models for the origin and history of Earth’s life have marshalled arguments and evidence that effectively undermine and refute the other two models. A biblical perspective and approach to Earth’s life can help resolve this impasse. While a superficial and pervasive appeal to divine intervention thwarts scientific advance, so does a rigid adherence to naturalism. A productive way forward is to identify which models (or parts of models), whether naturalistic, theistic, or a combination, most effectively narrow, rather than widen, knowledge gaps, minimize anomalies, offer the most comprehensive and detailed explanation of the data, and prove most successful in predicting scientific discoveries.
Keywords
spacetime theorems; naturalism; abiogenesis; panspermia; process structuralism; Cambrian explosion; amino acids; homochirality; hand of God dilemma
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Hematology
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