What is life? Can you define it through science?

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Death101 Fantastic! Really amazing 10/22/2010
P.A. Wahid The reason why we are unable to define life is that our concept of particulate gene is wrong. If we treat biological program based on the non-particulate gene concept originally proposed by Wilhelm Johannsen in 1911, we will be able to define and explain life. In accordance with the intangible bioprogram, a computer model of the organism has been proposed (see the book The Computer Universe published by Adam Publishers, New Delhi). An organism is natural biocomputer with hardware (all the chemical structures in the cell, tissues and organs) and biosoftware (intangible biological program). The bioprogram is not constituted by genome but it is non-particulate like our computer programs. The biosoftware is stored on the chromosomes, which is the memory storage (hard disk), as information is stored brain memory.

The cells of a dead body have all their structures including genome intact; yet they do not exhibit life! This fact about the particulate genome is opposed to the fundamental principle of chemistry. How can a structure lose its properties; in this case, information encoded by its structure?

Life is defined as the manifestations of the execution of the intangible bioprogram (stored on the chromosome), and death as the deletion of the bioprogram from the cells. A dead body is like a computer without software. The soul mentioned in Scriptures is nothing but the non-physical biological program stored on the chromosomes. The forms of artificial life are our computers, software-based toys, robots, etc.		 5/19/2009
zoe very interesting, i agree with all the stuff youve said...
good info

p.s. go zutara!		 3/25/2009
N/A i think life is just cemical and energy reacting like every thing else 7/28/2008
L. J. Hyde Yishwas, You are absolutely correct! If you ponder the question of life long enough you are forced to the same conclusion you present here. I think a concise definition can be given as "the order and animation of physical matter through the will and presence of God's spirit". 7/23/2008
nickjonas'g/f wowzer this is really borin omg guess wat happened in gym class during summer ? my bff summer goes out w/ a boi named gym also i met nick jonas and he said he would consider being my b/f 5/14/2008
tunde Good day Mr vishwas purohit,i loved what you've published about life because it's really good to know more about life.cheers 8/27/2007
BioTeacher While Me is being pretty harsh, he does have a point. Even Mr. Purohit admits that this view is not widely known or accepted. Therefore, sharing such a personal decision in a science article does seem rather inappropriate. Even if you chose a much more widely respected faith, such as Christianity, it would not be right to share an issue of belief in an article on science. 3/14/2007
Me HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!
No, seriously, Bhagvad Geeta? Did you just make that up?
I do believe that this is a science article. While your own personal views are for you to decide, you've got to give fair representation to other beliefs, not just a minority one.		 3/5/2007
j.h. van buskir life is a cell that has the ability to reproduce and evolve.this cell was created by a natural electric discharge upon upon a fortuitous conglomerate of amino acids. 2/17/2006
camille robinso ithink that this article was very positive because it gives specific details of what science is through life 10/11/2005
camille robinso i think that this article was good because it gives alot of information stating the facts of life through science. 10/11/2005
Remm Interesting article. Just a small correction on page 3. It's the Bhagvad Gita, (not Geeta).

Thanks.
4/28/2005
mylah exact definitions of being defined 6/22/2004
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