The basic forms of life are mainly fire and wind.?

Question

The basic forms of life are four water, earth, wind, and fire. This was known since the time of Empedocles. There may be life forms where water and earth are absent and fire and wind are found. That is what we were told in sunday church. Am I right?

Answer 1

What you are taught in Church has very little relationship

to the real world.

Listen to your Church for guidance in matters of right and wrong.

Listen to your science teacher in matters of how things,

including living ones), work.

Answer 2

... did you ever read a science book? this is the kinda of guidence that they give for you spiritually, not real world. on the birght side if you uild a time machine you would fit right in with plato

Answer 3

This is COMPLETELY WRONG.

Your church, in my opinion, should be brought up on charges for actually teaching this as science and/or fact.  Seriously, these people should be held accountable! This is, in my opinion, a MORAL PROBLEM that your church is willing to lie to you about something as fundamental as what we know for sure about what the universe is made of.  If they're not lying, then they're incredibly, overwhelmingly ignorant & incompetent and are the last people that should be giving guidance on ANYTHING.

SHAME ON THEM.  I really hope this isn't some horrible attempt to provide evidence for the existence of angels or something like that.

You need to find a new church. And you need to go to the book store, or amazon.com and start reading about the natural world. There is so much information available at your fingertips... take it upon yourself to learn the truth.

Answer 4

The base of all matter is the atom.  All living things have one thing in common, DNA.  This we have learned within the last 100 years.

What you learn in Church, stays in Church, it really has no applicant to life.

Answer 5

In antiquity, fire, water, earth, wind and fire are the five "elements" that make up the Earth - commonly seen in the Pagan Pentagram (one point for each "element").

The reason I've written elements as "elements" in the above paragraph is because they aren't elements. Elements are atoms with a specific atomic number - such as sodium, potassium, gold, iron, carbon to name a few. These elements make up compounds, such as water (2 hydrogen atoms, one oxygen atom = H20), and "earth" (or rocks), which are much more complicated but include base compounds such as CaSiO3 (Caclium silicate). Fire, however, is series of reactions (combustion, or burning), not denoted by elements. Air, or rather the atmosphere, is a mixture of gases in element form (78% nitrogen, ~20% oxygen, amongst others) or compound form (e.g. carbon dioxide, CO2).

Ignoring the factual inaccuracies in the first two sentences, life, as we know it, could not exist with just "fire and air", because fire is simply an exothermic reaction, visible to the eye (as in , it gives off heat). Fire is useful for complex, evolved life (i.e. us) but is certainly not necessary. Our bacterial ancestors got on fine without it, as did everything else we have evolved from, for over 2 billion years. As far as we know, an atmosphere is certainly required for life (this could be one reason Mars doesn't show any signs of life). Water, as far as we know, is a prerequisite for life.

However, don't take anything you hear in Church as factually accurate, without considering it first. Nothing against, religion, it's just that what you'll hear in Church is largely the spiritual interpretation, not scientific. Take what is said with a pinch of salt, and don't apply it literally.

Answer 6

It is difficult to say.We think that water and air are essential for living things in our earth.There may be some extra terrestial life in some other solar system where life depends upon some other substances similar to water and air where evolution of life took place in a different way.

Answer 7

I think your church got stuck in the 3rd century BCE. Chemistry has come a long way since then.

Answer 8

YOu mean the basic forms of matter I think

Answer 9

That's what people thought over 2000 years ago. Now we know that everything is made of atoms.

Answer 10

Uh... you DO know that nobody actually believes that anymore, right ? You know, since the discovery of atoms ?