Part 2: Self Discovery Series

Exactly what is life? If you ask a materialist or a matter-only theorist to define life, he will conclude that it must have some chemical basis. Since they believe that there is only one energy and that is matter, they have come to the conclusion that life itself is really nothing more than this offspring of matter. However, although materialists will throw the word "life" around quite authoritatively, they can't even define what it means.

As Professor Folsome of the University of Hawaii admits: "Life is an elusive thing to define fully and completely: it wiggles away whenever approached." But why can't materialists define life? If life is, as they assert chemical in essence and/or origin, why can't they provide a chemical formula or explanation for it? Because they don't even know what life is.