Atheists: Facing the unfaceable

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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.

Gasoline isn't a component of a car... because? Seriously, why can't it be considered a part of a car? Yeah, it runs out and you need to replace it, but you need to do that for every other part of the car too, or have you just never had to replace your tires?

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.

Do you ever have any positive evidence for your claims, or are your beliefs truly so negative and devoid of content that the only way you can think of to demonstrate them is to poke holes in everyone else's ideas?

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.

So there's no way to falsify what you believe? You'll throw up these big "science hasn't done this yet!" as though it's some showstopper argument in favor of your position, but you just admitted that you wouldn't take science actually doing that thing as evidence against your position. What's the point?