Re: I don't laugh at atheists. They have accepted indoctrinations.

Chris Bell <cbell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>> From what I taught about living organisms to children in my Second
>> Grades I was of the opinion the term 'living' had been decided by
>> scientists.
>> But to verify I did look up some websites. The following is a
>> slightly more detailed definition. Would you agree with it or do you
>> have another definition.
>> http://members.chillo.nl/r.kuizt_mrs-gren
>> From the mnemonic 'mrs gren' living things have/need
>> Movement, Repiration.Sensibility, Growrth, Reproduction, Excretion,
>> Nutrition
>> 
> (That would make senile old ladies dead then since they are neither 
> growing, sensible nor reproductive?). Sorry, Gladys, I couldn't resist
> it. 
> 
> No. And I don't have a definition, as the experts in that field are 
> unable to agree on one, I don't see that any input of mine would be of
> any use.
> 

I would propose a definition that sort of goes as follows:

Life is that which reproduces itself and evolves.

I realize that this definition is somewhat radical, and that it may 
include such things as computer algorithms and molecular evolution.  But 
it is very functional.



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