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From: ubi@sri-unix.ARPA (Ron ueberschaer)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Re: The Original Life Article
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Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 20:44:44 EDT
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Summary: What is life?

What's life?  Good question.

Life is something that grows and changes.  Like a
solar system.  Wrong.

Life is something made up of biological cells.  Like
a virus?  Wrong?

To me, life is that quality which one ascribes to an
object for which s/he cannot *fully* explain its 
(1) movement, (2) adaptation, (3) growth, and/or 
(4) ability to postpone or delay its detioration.  
Utilization of the term implies the possibility of 
God.  And so we may resume the debate...