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by George Jelliss ⌂ @, St Leonards on Sea, Friday, July 23, 2010, 20:09 @ dhw

dhw thought that: "even the most rabid of atheists would have to acknowledge that there is some kind of “life force” at work".

Certainly not! There is no evidence for any such "elan vital". This is a reversion to primitive "vitalism".

dhw has no complaint if "atheists believe it is a mixture of unconscious chance and the impersonal laws of Nature".

Such a process cannot be described as a "life force". To give it such a name implies surely that it is purposive towards the creation of life, or that it is somehow motivated and possesses some primitive form of life within itself.

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GPJ

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