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SANTOSH HELEKAR wrote: <<< If "life" is something abstract then how does this
abstract thing "initiate" all
these concrete "physical and chemical processes and not vice-versa", as claimed
in statement 2?
If "life" is something abstract then how does it "create" concrete "chemicals
within the cells and body of
the living substance", as claimed in statement 3?
RESPONSE : This
is the exact ignorance that I wanted to elicit. Because ‘Life’ is something
beyond human
comprehension, at least so far.
Which deduces that : Science cannot explain
‘Life’.
SANTOSH HELEKAR wrote: <<< The distinction being drawn here is utterly
meaningless. If science has explained what
makes a substance a "living" substance, it has by definition explained what
"life" is. If one understands the
meaning of an adjective i.e. "living", it follows logically that one also
understands the meaning of the noun
from which it is derived……… The word "life" has no explanatory value. It was a
noun that was coined in the
pre-scientific age to refer to…..>>>
RESPONSE : So, in other words ‘Life’ is from pre-scientific
age which you at present age still affirm that
“Science has already
explained life as a natural phenomenon.”
I do not think this thread anyone said that scientist cannot
explain what ‘living substance’ is; but what ‘Life’ is.
What makes the living
cells produce chemicals, what makes and regulates physical structures, what
makes genes to design cells in certain format.
That is what is the noun “LIFE”
which no human or computer has explained.
I rest my case.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
