In a deposition submitted under oath, Nick Douglas said:
 ND> I messed up writing the probability one, but as for life and
 ND> existence, won't you define them? What makes something alive? Energy?
 ND> Flashlights have it. The ability to be random? Computers achieve true
 ND> randominity (sp?). Now, define life in such a way that by your
 ND> descriptions, all known living things are verified as life, and all
 ND> non-living or dead things are excluded.
    The biological definition is an organismic state characterized by
 capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction.
 Which rather seems to disqualify the Judeo-Christian concept of the
 nature of God, if all four characteristics must be present to qualify
 something as alive.  Assuming spiritual "life" exists, what would be
 its definition?
... Stultum facit Fortuna quem vult perdere.
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