Atheists: Facing the unfaceable

[Chas]

You are making an argument from ignorance. Creating a cell from scratch is beyond our current technology.

Why do you think an identical copy of a living cell would not be living?

I know it's beyond our capabilities. I meant a physical copy. Take the materials that a cell is composed of and put together a physical replica of a cell. Will it live and multiply? No.

There is no reason why it would not live and multiply.

I am fairly ignorant of science, but one doesn't need to know much to be aware that scientists haven't been able to replicate the conditions that they theorize would be needed to create a living creature from non-living materials.

So? We haven't been able to build a star, either.

We know what the body is made up of, but we don't know how non-living materials being living beings.

All of the matter that makes your body is non-living.

Again, why should I not be open to the existence of a force or entity in us that is not physical and which lives on after death?

For one thing, there is no evidence for such a thing.

If natural sciences can't explain what life is, why should I rely only on science to make my determinations regarding the afterlife?

What do you mean 'explain'? We know quite a bit about life.

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Human beings don't come from a non-living source, so I guess that means they don't need any of your magic? You're going to need more than "belief" btw, you'll need a hook for your pixiedust to interact with material stuff.

Your words are meaningless Rhythm. Due to all the failed experiments, science has proven to me that life is non-material. No magic involved.

No human has been created except from other living humans. Every living thing on earth came from other living things all the way back to the beginning of life.
Did all of your alleged 'life force' come from that very first living thing?