Re: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize

Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@uncwil.edu)
Wed, 05 May 1999 12:02:45 -0400

Death is an essential feature of something that is alive. If it does not
die, then it was not a material entity that was previously alive. Moorad

-----Original Message-----
From: Pim van Meurs <entheta@eskimo.com>
To: alexanian@uncwil.edu <alexanian@uncwil.edu>; asa@calvin.edu
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Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 11:36 AM
Subject: RE: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize

>Perhaps it would be helpful if one could define "alive" ?
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>To: alexanian@uncwil.edu; evolution@calvin.edu; asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Life in the Lab -- Fox and the Nobel Prize
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>In a message dated 5/3/99 7:08:01 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>alexanian@uncwil.edu writes:
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>> My point is that it hasn't been accomplished. The transition from dead
>> matter to living matter is a tough one.
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>In what way are Fox's protocells not alive?
>
>Kevin L. O'Brien
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