Edwina, I agree with you. The question of how life emerged is important, and it's important to explore all the possible ways in which it might have emerged on earth and on other planets or moons in the solar system, galaxy, or universe. I also implied that Peirce would have approved of the word 'emergence' as a hypostatic abstraction of the verb 'emerge.' And I said that Jon A's objection to the word 'emergence' is similar to Moliere's objection to the term 'dormitive virtue'. But I added the point that much more analysis and study needs to be done. John
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