Atheists: Facing the unfaceable

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Is a car alive? I mean, you could put all the parts in a pile and they won't get you home, but if they're in the right place, then you're good to go. That doesn't mean that the car has a spirit. It just means that the rights things are in the right place to do a job.

You might wish to familiarize yourself with the concept of emergent properties.

For the car, the ingredient that makes the car function is gasoline. That product is not part of the car, and when it runs out, the car stops functioning. We don't have to wait for the car to break down, but just until it runs out of gas. What we know about emergent properties only applies to the evolution of living organisms. What emergent properties can be used to explain how inanimate materials become a living organism? Perhaps, like the car, that property comes from something that is not material make -up of the organism. Not that it would disprove the existence of an afterlife, but if scientists create a totally living organism they will definitely get my attention. Regardless of what you may think, I not at all closed to science.