What makes life vital (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 07, 2015, 20:10 (3337 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Tony began by saying he thought you had missed the mark, and the argument that life begets life still doesn't explain life, any more than the union of sperm and egg explains life. I would like to highlight what Tony says, because it is so important: “It is not that they can't explain the machinery, it's that they can't explain the spark.” And I would apply that both to life and to thought, with emphasis on the fact that scientists can explain the machinery by which organisms operate, but they cannot explain the cognitive, decision-making, communicative skills of those organisms, ranging from the simplest to the most complex.-I fully understand the point. That is why I said life is a continuum. Once it appeared with all of its magical properties it has continued to make life in different forms. The 'spark', as were the instructions (information), were given in a miraculous beginning. As long as life can maintain itself by reproducing itself it will continue. If that continuum is stopped, it will take another miracle to start it again. This is why I am a believer.