(11-10-2012, 10:38 AM)Jester Wrote: What you are suggesting is not the scientific method. It is an appeal to authority. There is no definition of a living organism that transcends our epistemology, and somehow matters to the self-organizing chemicals of the world.It is an appeal to logic. How is it an appeal to authority? We define things based on our understanding. Aren't we correct in relying on our understanding afforded by the study of human biology?
Must we define what living means? http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/t...lp_living/ Is the pre-born child ready to be born a living human, or not?
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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