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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 619 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
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imnotbncre8ive Junior Member (Idle past 3434 days) Posts: 4 Joined: |
quote: I must agree. Very technical jargon, poor punctuation, with abysmal organization of thoughts (and perhaps incorrect usage of nontehcnical words in many cases) make it entirely incomprehensible. When I read a random scientific article, I often don't know many of the field-specific technical terms, but one still gets a general sense for the argument being put forth and the reasoning supporting it. Here, it feels like a disaster. "perhaps you will be the first to displace this sustained attention" Edited by imnotbncre8ive, : No reason given.
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 220 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
I've just looked back a bit, and your first quote is from a post made 4 years ago by an inactive member. Someone else recently made the same mistake, which is why this thread has emerged from the past. The other stuff's from a member called Brad McFall, who's a nice guy, but may have medical problems related to communication. The post is also 4 years old.
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 2358 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
Why does your car or computer eventually die? All the parts are still there? Isn't it possible to still fix these things? All that is needed is to identify and replace the nonworking part(s). You or I(assuming you are not a mechanic/IT specialist) could not fix these things, but given enough time and resources, an expert could. Science continually makes advances in extending life. Research into telomeres may find a way to prevent cellular death.
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 2358 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
Could you provide a definition?
Is the google scholar search your evidence? Have people been pronounced dead and then brought back to life?
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 2358 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 441 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
How are you doing?
Do you believe that, as soon as the organism "dies," all chemical reactions happening in the organism's cells cease completely, all at the same time? I suspect that this isn't the case. I suspect that death (either the process leading up to the final event or the direct aftermath thereof, or, most likely, both) is characterized by a gradual falling off of chemical activity, rather than a sudden cessation of all functions associated with "life." On these grounds, I reject your claim of a sharp, distinct boundary. -Bluejay Darwin loves you.
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 619 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
Organism death. Cellular death is organism death doku. Trust me, scientific evidence "suggests" you will die.
Huh? Comuters die? Cars die? What branch of science do you come from? The literary sciences....I mean arts. Death in the way you used it is a metaphor. Computers aren't alive and neither are cars. I hate to break that to you. Therefore, your whole logical anaology breaks down. Sorry.
Science also continually makes advances in ending life. I think science is neutral on this subject. So you must believe in immortality? Infinitely long telomeres. That's an interesting mythological concept.
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 619 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
A regious zealot who ignores scientific evidence about life and pursues mythological stories about the origin of life coming from the evolutionary emergence of chemicals.
Yes, and I think the last time I checked 100% of scientists in the world would still predict that those who have been brought "back to life" will still die eventually. Except for the one who has power (that's a physics term) over life and death (those are biological terms)....Jesus Christ who rose from the dead and lives today. I put the parenthetical statements in because this is a science forum.;)
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 619 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
A virus is unequivocally dead outside a host cell.
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 619 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
No I love to discuss this subject, especially with people like you. I just thought that this thread died. It's been brought back to life! Hallelujah. But I theorize, based on evidence, it will die in the future.
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 619 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
Nope. Definitively Nope. Actually many chemical reactions don't begin to start happening until after death. However, to answer your question more thoroughly, for a single celled organism, at the point of death most if not all of the chemical reactions that support life do cease. This has to do with the cessation of the process of respiration. In multicellular organisms it is a matter of respiration also. When the cardio/ pulminary/neuroligial systems stop the process of respiration then the organism dies. That's why with humans, the point of death is related to these three sysems. If ones heart stops, no blood is pumped to the lungs to receive the oxygen for all the cells in the body. If the lungs stop breathing, then we have the same dilemma. If the brain is unable to control the heart and lungs then we have a real problem. We can mechanically respirate a person as you know. And we can also mechanically pump blood as you know. So a person can be "brain dead" and still very much alive. Usually the "brain death" is caused by some form of lack of respiration for the brain cells. So in summary, once something is alive, that life will usually continue until something stops the respiration process. Once enough cells in the cardio/pulminary/neurological systems begin to die, then organism death will prevail. In plants, it is still a matter of respiration. A plant doesn't die all at once. Plants die over time. But they still die.
In all multicellular organisms, you could argue that death is gradual. Actually you could argue that death begins at birth for that matter. But that doesn't help you with the concept that there is no distinct line called death. No one would argue that a baby is dead, but a baby is dying. No one would argue that my 82 year old mother with Alzheimers is dead, but she is dying. Both will have a distinct time where scientifically we will pronounce them both as dead. And ultimately that distict time is when we in all of our knowledge and power can no longer sustain their life. We do not have this power or this knowledge. People, animals, plants, bacteria, and all iving things die. That is a fact with overwhelming evidence. You may can argue the exact moment of death, but you cannot argue that there is a distict line between death and life. Science creates this distinct line. Living things have certain distinct characteristics. Dead things don't have those characteristics.
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 2358 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
This is not true. Blood cells have an average life of 4 months. You are saying that when one of my blood cells dies, I die. Science has had problems trying to define death because new technologies have extended life past previous definitions. New definitions rely on the cessation of brain activity and function. What is to stop science from keeping a brain alive indefinitely?
The analogy still holds. The machine's functions stop. The cell's functions stop.
How is science neutral on this?
Actually yes I do. there is scienctific evidence for it. Here are 2 examples: 1. The hydra is a radially symetrical organism ranging in size from 1mm-20mm. Hydras do not age. They are biologically immortal. 2. Did you know that some cultivars of grapes are clones that have existed for thousands of years? Did you know every Granny Smith apple comes from a single chance plant that was grown in 1868 in Austailia by Maria Ann Smith? You cannot grow a Granny Smith or any other variety of apple from seed. Wouldn't you agree that is immortality?
The telomeres do not have to be infinitely long, just infinitely extended.
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 2358 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
Then explain to me how newly found Sputnik virus affects the mamavirus outside of a host cell? By your definition of life, certain bacteria such as Chlamydia are not life.
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