TFF Questions:

Does the Earth respirate?
Does the Earth reproduce itself?
Does the Earth metabolize?

Why call it life? It makes no sense.

Rep: Absolutely correct in a literal comparison.

My problem is that I like to think that all things are a form of life and that not all forms of life must contain or conform to all the other forms of life. Your main point, for my thoughts, is the lack of reproduction. We do not have a lot of little Earths circling around us so that is conclusive- in animalistic terms. Is reproduction an essential ingredient of life or just something we are accustomed to? If something was created to exist forever why would the ability to reproduce be required?

Any way, I agree that common usage of ?life? does not apply to Earth we define it.
jjw