Why does living matter strive so hard to live?

Question

There is no real reason i can think of as to why living matter tries so hard to stay alive. or what the perpose of evolution is other than to keep surviving? why is life essential to specific forms matter. please give scientific as well as religious theorys.

Answer 1

Well, strictly from an evolutionary point of view, those life forms that _don't_ put a lot of effort into surviving simply get out-competed and out-reproduced by those that do. So over time, it is the ones that try hardest at surviving that come to dominate.

I can't give a religious theory since I don't think religion really has anything to do with it.

Answer 2

Man created Gods because he wanted to live forever and be immortal. Please read Immortality revisited at this link. http://socialanalysis.siteideas.net/immortal.htm

To praise mortality must seem to be madness. If mortality is a blessing, it surely is not widely regarded as such. Life seeks to live, and rightly suspects all counsels of finitude. “Better to be a slave on earth than the king over all the dead,” says Achilles in Hades to the visiting Odysseus, in apparent regret for his prior choice of the short but glorious life.

Our soul’s reach exceeds our grasp; it seeks more than continuance; it reaches for something beyond us, something that for the most part eludes us. Our distress with mortality is the derivative manifestation of the conflict between the transcendent longings of the soul and the all-too-finite powers and fleshly concerns of the body.

Answer 3

The bases of life to procreate...creation, evolution, adaptation...continuaty.....etc for the last 3.5 Billion years....think wathever you want.....life goes on without you...

Answer 4

becasue that's how our ancestor (yes, all the way back to little tiny singular cells) lived lol!

Answer 5

We fear the unknown.