Book Title: Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra Publisher: Jain Sahitya AcademyPage 38
________________ 2 Is Life an End-Product of Chemical Synthesis? Drawing inference from its investigations, one branch of science admits the plausibility of some sort of survival after the death of the physical body; while another branch i.e. Biology refuses to accept the principle of life existing independent of the physical body. According to its contention, life emerges when specific conjugation of matter by way of chemical synthesis takes place to form the body and gets annihilated with the decomposition of that body. With this as its working hypothesis, this branch of science has been striving hard to prove its contention, and hopes, one day, to create life in a test-tube by getting the right chemical constituents to come together under controlled laboratory conditions. Jain Education International Biological hypothesis : Stanley Miller, a scientist from Chicago University, on the basis of his experimental research data postulated that in the primeval biosphere of our planet, there were only three gaseous substances i.e. Hydrogen, Ammonia, and Methane with no free oxygen available in gaseous form. It existed in water only. These three gases were experimentally sealed into a test-tube and bombarded with electrical discharges saturated with ultra-violet rays. The chemical process thus induced, led to the formation of several amino acids within a week's time. Enthused by these findings, he proposed hypothetically that after a certain drop in the earth's temperature at the initial stages, the atmospheric gases i.e. Hydrogen, Ammonia and Methane along with water vapour were For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.orgPage Navigation
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