Thread: A lil controversy: Cloning

"I disagree, earth sustains life with life, how is that not alive??"

"Earth" does NOT "sustain life with life", (if anything you would say that the SUN sustains life with radiation, does that make the sun alive too?) The "Earth" doesn't "do" anything the laws of physics "do" everything. The Earth is just another planet like Mars, Venus etc. etc.

"the earth has everything to do w/life"

Ok...

"if the earth was just a rock and couldnt sustain life"

Right, but if it were a bunch of rocks with a whole load of chemical and physical processes going on (which it is) it would.

"the things that the earth has done over eons of time has helped every living thing on the planet"

The "Earth" has not "done" anything, the laws of PHYSICS and CHEMISTRY have shaped the Earth, and as such have created an environment where it was possible for life to form.

"now does the earth have conciousness...?"

No.

>>if anything you would say that the SUN sustains life with radiation, does that make the sun alive too?

then define life? what makes something living?

energy = life...

earth = energy...

earth = life.

There are several facts that the earth is alive

1. Birth.
2. Death
3. Attracts better than most men.
4. It's center is warm but it's outside is cold.
5. Blood flows through it.
6. Some spots have acne.

IMVHO, life is the ability for a combination of substances to control chemical reactions for the benefit of itself.

Although probably not what you would see in a text book, it fits my needs well.