Programs, cells and letting God be God (A concluding reply to the Smithy)
I would like to thank Dr. Sullivan for his recent post, Nature, Artifacts, Meaning and Providence which has helped to clear the air enormously. In his closing comments, Dr. Sullivan calls for calm in the debate over life’s origin, and urges that the origin of life should be examined dispassionately, in an atmosphere free from theological bias. He is of course quite right, and in this post, I intend to engage him on precisely those terms. What I propose to do is address some general issues raised by Dr. Sullivan in his latest post on ID.
Life – an agreed definition?
While our views on the formal conditions for something’s being alive are somewhat divergent, I think we can now agree on the finalistic conditions.
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