(December 7, 2019 at 3:44 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: ; they seem exclusive to living organisms, which as Brewer's video suggests, creates a type of chicken-and-egg problem.
They're not exclusive to living organisms because viruses have DNA and RNA but are not considered to be living organisms.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"