Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: When defining life, it should be considered not just life as it is today, but as it might have been in its primordial form and as it will be in the future.All present forms of life appear as something completely new.Life, then, is transferred and not conceived in each new generation.Furthermore, the phenomenon of life has existed on Earth for approximately 3.5 billion years.Consequently, although the genome of a new embryo is unique, the makeup of embryo is not new.If life is observed through the cell, then every life (and human also) is considered as a continuum."What a piece of work is a man."William Shakespeare, Hamlet "To those of average curiosity about the wonders of nature, it is likely that two great mysteries have stirred the imagination, and each concerns a birth.Who has not gazed into the heavens on a starlit night and wondered about the birth of the universe?And who has not been stimulated by the sight of the newly born baby to marvel at the unseen events within the mother's uterus that have led to the birth of such a perfect creation?"These words written by Professor Sir Graham (Mont) Liggins open Pandora's box of questions, dilemmas, doubts, and controversies about human life and its beginning, offering everybody lifelong challenge to solve mystery of life. Definition o f LifeProper answer to the question "How to define human life?" is complicated.Nowadays, dilemmas consider the respect of human life from the birth to death, involving not just biology but other sciences also.Philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, law, and politics evaluate this topic from different points of views.Integration of all would result proper definition.Some authors say that that life as such does not exist-no one has ever seen it.Szent-Gyorgy says that noun "life" has no significance because there is no such thing as "life."Le Dantez holds that the expression "to live" is too general and that it is better to say a dog "dogs" or a fish "fishes" than a dog or a fish lives.
Source: Science, Art and Religion.
Author: Asim Kurjak
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7082278423