RE: Atheists: Facing the unfaceable
February 5, 2015 at 8:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2015 at 9:02 pm by Chas.)
(February 5, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Lek Wrote: 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?
Um, no.
Take a metal that would explosively burn your mouth and gas that if inhaled would chemically burn your airways and could kill you.
When these are combined, you experience salt. The properties of NaCl are emergent properties not contained in either sodium or chlorine.
Take several elements, combine them in particular compounds, structure them in particular ways, and you get life. Life is an emergent property not contained in those elements.
Quote: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.
It is good that you are not closed to science because you have some learning to do.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
