Lots of ideas. Today, there are several competing theories for how life arose on Earth. Some question whether life began on Earth at all, asserting instead that it came from a distant world or the heart of a fallen comet or asteroid.
Although, just allowing an âAnti-Religious Committee of the Central Committeeâ is pretty telling, and Stalin, who murdered a lot of people for a lot of reasons, did have a concerted campaign against religion where he murdered anyone who was a theist, and he detroyed all churches, temples, and mosques in Russia.
Durkheim defined religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say set apart and forbidden, beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community, called a church, all those who adhere to them (1965 [1912]: 62).