Do microbes forming on rocks demonstrate that life comes from matter?
So if we keep a rock or any object for some time we see that there are some insects or some microbes that come over there and so can this be how do we understand that life cannot come from matter if we look at it from a more scientific or a precise perspective you will always find that that particular object that was a suitable suitable environment for some life form to grow over there or to reproduce over there there must have been some eggs of some living being which were put by someone and then they reproduced or some just some microbes came and started inhabiting over there they came from somewhere it is not that on the rock they were produced automatically there is a difference between between origin and appearance origin means when something didn't exist and it came to existence appearance means it just became visible to us so if you look at it scientifically also what science tells us is that there is appearance through reproduction normal form of reproduction sexual reproduction there is also a sexual reproduction that happens but still there is we observe that life doesn't spring from nowhere if we look at it scientifically we find that some eggs some reproductive mechanism is active over there that's how things come about now the point here is the specific mechanisms in particular situations may not be observable to us or may not even be known to us but fundamentally matter and consciousness are two distinct categories of existence so life say for example this particular object this mic it's made of matter and say my body your body is made of matter a microbes body is also made of matter now matter where there is life present in it it behaves fundamentally different from matter which has no life in it this comes into existence this deteriorates whereas we could use the word ensouled matter matter in which soul is present so what happens it comes into existence it grows it strives to maintain itself it reproduces then deteriorates and then it gets destroyed so now you know this if number of students become more it's not going to grow on its own isn't it? this mic is not going to grow on its own it's not going to reproduce if it is cracked it will stay cracked if my hand gets cut it will clot and leave itself so basically growth maintenance and reproduction are externally manifest characteristics of matter which are not seen in all matter so where do they come from fundamentally speaking the building blocks of this mic and the building blocks of this hand they are the same but there is a substantial difference in behavior of matter when it is in life form I mean it is normal so that difference is caused by the presence of spirit.