"What is life?
This is a question that is often asked and typically confused. The confusion starts from the several uses of the word “life” in English.
There are at least three usages as exemplified by the following questions:
1) Is there life on Mars?
2) Is there life in this organism?
3) Is life worth living?
The definition of “life” in these three usages is quite different.
In the first case, life refers to a collective phenomenon, in the second case it refers to the ability of an individual organism to metabolize and grow, and in the third case life refers to the history of activities that an organism undertakes. The first two usages are of direct relevance to astrobiology. The usual definition of life, as used in the first case, is that it is a system of material entities that can undergoevolution, which implies reproduction, mutation and selection." AstrobiologyMagazine
NOTICE.. Astrobiology is being deceptive in their presentation of "evolution".
First, for a system to be able to engage in "reproduction" and engage in some sort of "selection" would require a level of complexity to begin with. So that would NOT be "evolution". Those systems would already have to be in place before their precious evolution could take place.
Second, mutation is a LOSS of INFO, which isn't "evolution" but rather devolution.
This is a question that is often asked and typically confused. The confusion starts from the several uses of the word “life” in English.
There are at least three usages as exemplified by the following questions:
1) Is there life on Mars?
2) Is there life in this organism?
3) Is life worth living?
The definition of “life” in these three usages is quite different.
In the first case, life refers to a collective phenomenon, in the second case it refers to the ability of an individual organism to metabolize and grow, and in the third case life refers to the history of activities that an organism undertakes. The first two usages are of direct relevance to astrobiology. The usual definition of life, as used in the first case, is that it is a system of material entities that can undergo
First, for a system to be able to engage in "reproduction" and engage in some sort of "selection" would require a level of complexity to begin with. So that would NOT be "evolution". Those systems would already have to be in place before their precious evolution could take place.
Second, mutation is a LOSS of INFO, which isn't "evolution" but rather devolution.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7