The Resurrection

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The abiogenesis argument alone seems to settle the debate. You cannot hold the position that life was able to emerge from a non-living environment, but reject that life is able to re-emerge in structure where all the components of life are present. You also can't hold the position that in the first case life emerged through an unguided process, but that it would not be able to emerge through a guided process.

Holding the first position seems to commit everyone to the second. Pessimism over how hard it is to do with today's technology seems beside the point.

But the re-emergence of life is hardly the same thing as resurrection. Re-animating a corpse is one thing. Re-animating a corpse with its psyche (memories, emotions, likes/dislike, etc) intact is quite another.

Boru