Life either always existed or life began at some time as through a cause. The fossil record is a strong indicator that there was a time when life did not exist on Earth. And any causes of life from the universe causing the beginning of life on Earth are very improbable due to the circumstances of the universe that are generally hostile to life. For life to exist on Earth, there must be a cause of life acting on Earth to bring life from non-life.
Then if life was caused, it was caused by either a natural cause or a supernatural cause. A natural cause is non-living, which is to act as hetero-motive action or action as moved by another agent. Yet life is in accord with automotive action, whereby action is from self. The heteromotive action of the non-living is then of a diverse order of action from that of the living. Therefore the non-living cannot be the original cause of the living. Only the living can be the original cause of the living, and as natural living things did not always exist, only a supernatural, living agent could act as the original cause the naturally living.
The origin of natural life in the supernatural cause indicates there is strong evidence for the existence of the supernatural. As such, there is strong evidence for the existence of the theological virtue of faith which enables man to believe in the content of divine revelation and thereby attain to some knowledge of the content of the supernatural life of God. That life of God is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as the Trinitarian God, who has revealed Himself through the Christ event and the doctrines as taught by the Catholic church.
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