To propose a purpose...

The purpose in life has different explanations from different life stances. It may differ substantially within the communities of each life stance, but the examples below are the purposes that are generally accepted as the main for each life stance.

Life stance	Main purpose
Buddhism	To help sentient beings end their suffering (see The Four Noble Truths) with Karma and Dharma methods.
Christianity	Love God, Love others. The Great Comission
Hinduism	To worship work (Karma) according to law (Dharma) without any thought of result, as said in the Bhagavad Gita.
Humanism	To promote human flourishing.
Islam	The Arabic word Islam means peace, submission and obedience to God's will.
Judaism	To serve God[9] and to prepare for the world to come[10] ("Olam Haba").[11]
Postmodernism	To create complex structures and interactions with purpose of joy and understanding.

Life...

Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes (i. e., living organisms) from those that do not,^[1][2] either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate.^[3][4] Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.
Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations. More complex living organisms can communicate through various means.^[1][5] A diverse array of living organisms (life forms) can be found in the biosphere on Earth, and the properties common to these organisms—plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria—are a carbon- and water-based cellular form with complex organization and heritable genetic information.
In philosophy and religion, the conception of life and its nature varies. Both offer interpretations as to how life relates to existence and consciousness, and both touch on many related issues, including life stance, purpose, conception of a god or gods, a soul or an afterlife.

On the origin of Life...

Theory of Chemical Evolution

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This theory is also known as Materialistic Theory or Physico-chemical Theory. According this theory, Origin of life on earth is the result of a slow and gradual process of chemical evolution that probably occurred about 3.8 billion years ago. This theory was proposed independently by two scientists - A.I.Oparin, a Russian scientist in 1923 and J.B.S Haldane, an English scientist, in 1928.

According to this theory,

• Spontaneous generation of life, under the present environmental conditions is not possible.

• Earth's surface and atmosphere during the first billion years of existence, were radically different from that of today's conditions.

• The primitive earth's atmosphere was a reducing type of atmosphere and not oxidising type.

• The first life arose from a collection of chemical substances through a progressive series of chemical reactions.

• Solar radiation, heat radiated by earth and lighting must have been the chief energy source for these chemical reactions.

This theory still reigns within western secular scientific thought. Within it we immediately find ideological paradox. The first of the four 'rules' is a denial of an old Greek philosophy where life continually emenates from 'dead matter'.

Theory of Spontaneous Generation

This theory assumed that living organisms could arise suddenly and spontaneously from any kind of non-living matter. One of the firm believers in spontaneous generation was Aristotle, the Greek philosopher (384-322 BC).

He believed that dead leaves falling from a tree into a pond would transform into fishes and those falling on soil would transform into worms and insects. He also held that some insects develop from morning dew and rotting manure. Egyptians believed that mud of the Nile river could spontaneously give rise to many forms of life. The idea of spontaneous generation was popular almost till seventeenth century. Many scientists like Descartes, Galileo and Helmont supported this idea. In fact, Von Helmont went to the extent stating that he had prepared a 'soup' from which he could spontaneously generate rats! The 'soup' consisted of a dirty cloth soaked in water with a handful of wheat grains. Helmont stated that if human sweat is added as an 'active principle' to this, in just 17 days, it could generate rats!
The theory of Spontaneous Generation was disproved in the course of time due to the experiment conducted by Fransisco Redi, (1665), Spallanzani (1765) and later by Louis Pasteur (1864) in his famous Swan neck experiment. This theory was disapproved, as scientists gave definite proof that life comes from pre-existing life.

This denial makes sense when it is stated as I just did, as an attack on this old Greek assumption. But they did not state it like that, and the results reverbarate to this day. It resulted in what some like to call the paradox or religion within science; the concept of 'something from nothing'.

To pursue scientific truths we require proof, seeks to explain the events of nature in a reproducible way, and to use these findings to make useful predictions. These scientific predictions are based on 'something from something'. This excludes the notion of 'something from nothing' as real, thus falsifialble. The religious paradox the secular scientific atheist lives in is its own explanation of how our universe began. The Big Bang theory in itself is the ultimate story of creation arising from nothing.

So it is with the origin of life, todays secular scientific thought will dismiss Aristotles theory with contempt , just to replace it with exactely the same theory, only reduced to 'one single critical moment' and 'just the right conditions' for Life to 'spontaneously generate' out of non-living matter.  

On the origin of Life...

Theory of Catastrophism

It is simply a modification of the theory of Special Creation. It states that there have been several creations of life by God, each preceded by a catastrophe resulting from some kind of geological disturbance. According to this theory, since each catastrophe completely destroyed the existing life, each new creation consisted of life form different from that of previous ones.

If the god Cuvier talks about here is the Abrahamic god, all powerful, all knowing and according to Christianity, all loving, why is it 'God' has to deal with 'Catastrophes'? Of course the god in this context is Life, dealing with her enviroment, adapting, surviving.

Metabolism is the result of our feeding. Hunger forces us to...

Metabolism

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Structure of the coenzyme adenosine triphosphate, a central intermediate in energy metabolism

Metabolism (from Greek μεταβολισμός (metabochode'), "outthrow") is the set of chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to maintain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. Metabolism is usually divided into two categories. Catabolism breaks down organic matter, for example to harvest energy in cellular respiration. Anabolism uses energy to construct components of cells such as proteins and nucleic acids.
The chemical reactions of metabolism are organized into metabolic pathways, in which one chemical is transformed through a series of steps into another chemical, by a sequence of enzymes. Enzymes are crucial to metabolism because they allow organisms to drive desirable reactions that require energy and will not occur by themselves, by coupling them to spontaneous reactions that release energy. As enzymes act as catalysts they allow these reactions to proceed quickly and efficiently. Enzymes also allow the regulation of metabolic pathways in response to changes in the cell's environment or signals from other cells.
The metabolism of an organism determines which substances it will find nutritious and which it will find poisonous. For example, some prokaryotes use hydrogen sulfide as a nutrient, yet this gas is poisonous to animals.^[1] The speed of metabolism, the metabolic rate, also influences how much food an organism will require.

## within this scientific explanation we found another great paradox within the materialistic mechanical scientific explanation of life's origin; the inevetable antropomorphizing qualities of our existence. 'The organism determines' and 'which substances it will find nutritious'. These aren't qualifications of matter but of consciousness. ##

Alan Watts...

"...A thing is a think!'

or:

Whatever we believe is real, we've experienced. Our consciousness is based on the experience of differences within our own being. These differences are echo's of the original duality of our being. The duality of the opposites, crystalized in Pain and Pleasure and the Fear of Pain. The Yin-Yang of our being, the trinity of our consciousness. The original opposites of Pain and Pleasure first experienced as Hunger and Lust resulted in the first ever action taken by Life; feeding.