Email this article The Phenomenon of Life in Natural Sciences and Theology
- Authors: Krivovichev C.V.1
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- Federal Research Center "Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences"
- Issue: No 2(121) (2025)
- Pages: 48-58
- Section: THEOLOGY, HUMANITIES AND NATURAL SCIENCES: ASPECTS OF RELATIONSHIP
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2587-6090/article/view/304552
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22204/2587-8956-2025-121-02-48-58
- ID: 304552
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The notion of life is at the intersection of natural sciences and theology. From the point of view of natural sciences, the problem of the living and the non-living has not yet been solved, as has the question of continuous transitions between matter, life and consciousness. Vladimir Vernadsky considered life to be a primary concept and insisted that the boundary between living matter and inert (non-living) matter is impassable. The difference between the living and the non-living is especially evident when reviewing the problem of species in mineralogy and biology: the biological world is multifold richer than the mineral kingdom, while the gap in structural complexity from the point of view of information theory can be estimated at a dozen orders of magnitude. The nature of biological information, associated with the functional activity of biological systems, also differs. The living and the non-living also differ in a single molecular genetic apparatus in the former, therefore the nature of biological evolution is fundamentally different from mineral evolution. The concept of the discontinuous nature of the natural hierarchy is present in Christian theology, and this determines its productivity in relations with the natural sciences, which, according to Sergey Vavilov, need a “new worldview.”
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C. V. Krivovichev
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