(April 30, 2013 at 9:58 am)whateverist Wrote:(April 30, 2013 at 8:41 am)Aractus Wrote: How do you build a self-replicating organic structure from scratch in such a way that the process is an inevitable part of physics?
You probably don't. Neither do I, scientists or God. Life, like rust, just happens. It seems to be a potential state of certain inorganic materials in the same way ice is a potential state of liquids. If life were not a potential state for inorganic materials, neither God nor abiogenesis could 'create' it. But since it demonstrably is, no God or alien seeding theory is required.
May I point out much depends upon the definition? I know exactly how to do what that definition says by dropping a salt crystal into a supersaturated saltwater solution. If the definition is "organic" which only means a molecule with a carbon in it, I doubt it would take long to find something similar to the table salt crystal.
My point is there is no boundary between life and non-life that is clear enough to state in a non-scientific manner.
