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| 2600BC | Clay creation myth | Imhotep | The model that a god (Khnum) took clay, molded it into a human shape, on his potter's wheel, then a second god (Isis) breathed breath or spirit into the clay, bring it to life. |
| 490BC | Fire theory of life | Hippocrates | Quote: “heat (see: animal heat), a quantity which functions to animate, derives from an internal fire located in the left ventricle” |
| Flame model of life |
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| 17th century | Gunpowder theory of life |
| Life was conceived as being powered by something akin to the explosion of gunpowder occurring inside of animals and humans. |
| 1771 | Spark theory of life | Luigi Galvani | Holds that, based on electrical animation experiments of severed detached frog legs, that electricity (or animal electricity) and or sparks are behind the nature or principle of life. |
| 1888 | Crystal model of life |
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| 1944 | Negative entropy theory of life | Erwin Schrodinger | The reasoning that the inverse of entropy (negative entropy) equates to order, and that life feeds on this, so to stay away from equilibrium, which in this scheme is equated to death. |
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| 2009 | Defunct theory of life | Libb Thims | The conclusion that, thermodynamically and chemically speaking, life is a concept that does not exist (see: life does not exist); rather it is a anthropomorphic religio-mythology belief lost in a philosopher's stone like search of meaning in definitional and conceptual terms in modern world of periodic tables, physics, chemistry, reaction mechanism, amid a hydrogen (not alive) to human molecule (not alive) big bang to present, connective great chain of being view of things. |
