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Originally Posted by Suburbanite
why are those things you said suddenly the criteria for life? There are many life forms which don't breath, many that don't even have a respiratory system. It uses energy, but so does a car, is a car alive? I'd like you to think a lot harder about how we qualify life. You'll come to realize there is no scientific definition possible, and that the distinction itself is a false dichotomy. Life is just a pattern repeating itself of a select few combinations of atoms, though the combination is never the exact same from creature to creature of species to species. Not all life can think or contains a nervous system. Things other than life consume and combust energy, are even born and die. These things are still not life. So come up with a working definition for life first and then lets talk.
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The criteria for life is that it does all of a certain list of things. A car uses energy, but it does not respirate, can not reproduce, does not have DNA or Cell Structure, meaning it is not alive. And there are some microscopic beings that are not considered alive, because they don't respirate, or because they can't reproduce some time in their existence. Go back to grade school.