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 Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:11 am |
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What life is and what it is not:
Life is the natural reaction of chemicals to environmental forces
where stability is selected for.
Life is NOT a fluke, origin, event with chemical proccesses
popping up outside of, and alien to, its environment,
that then must 'fight' to adapt.
Nobel Laureate Christian de Duve has called for "a rejection of
improbabilities so incommensurably high that they can only be called
miracles, phenomena that fall outside the scope of scientific inquiry."
Life as a fluke event should be rejected as "improbabilities so ... high..."
Where as my definition says life is the natural reaction to that
environment and in every step of the way is more stable, and better adapted to
that environment and more likely to exist and continue to exist -
which it has over 4 billion years.
And that the novel features that we use to define life, are no more
than natural chemical reactions to environmental forces that lead
to more stabiltiy:
metabolism (using energy to work to become more stable in that environment)
replication (descent with modification for stability in that environment)
cell membrane (protection for chemical processes, insuring further stability
in that environment),
even survival of the fittest (using competition to insure stability)
and symbiosis (using cooperation to insure stability). |
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