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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (24482)	7/9/2006 6:39:50 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Didn't say that." No need to be defensive. What your statement suggested was that energy and life shared the common quality of indestructibility. The statement seemed odd to me as it is so obvious that life CAN be created and destroyed. So I don't know what you meant... "for instanace you can't create or destroy energy.... or life."

To: LLCF who wrote (24482)	7/10/2006 12:26:00 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

I spoke to a micro-biologist from the university about photo-synthesis. He described all the stages/cycles involved with the plant's chloroplast capturing sunlight and manufacturing chlorophyll (life at the beginning of the food chain). I learned the process in childhood but I figured this was a rare opportunity to splash puddles with a renowned expert. So, I asked him to show me the exact point at which the elements of non-life, (molecules, chemicals, photons, and electrons) become life. He smirked a bit, then winked and said in a very quiet voice, "let's just call that the blue magic of the process." I asked the Director of a hospital a similar question about life, the phases of sperm joining egg at conception (granted the egg and sperm are alive) and got a similar answer about the individual life that results. In the last moments of pre-dawn thought, every scientist, philosopher, and seeker of knowledge knows this. We aren't able to describe the essence of life as a physical entity. We know that it somehow transcends non-living things in some way. We can generally detect its presence or absence, but it seems a bit remiss to simply declare it as created or destroyed, or not created or destroyed at any point in time.