Originally Posted By: paul
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Life is just the easiest way for the elements to convert light into heat


there was no life at that time.
so the elements couldn't have known what life was or
how to form life.

and why would the elements need or want to convert themselves
into a machine that converts light into heat?

could you explain that a little further?
and if possible could you provide any evidence that you may have.
...so you have not read the book, Web of Life, by Capra?

Search dissipative systems. They evolve without being alive. Life, as a quasi-stable, complex system, can emerge out of a simple, robust, chaotic, dissipative system. ...in the way all stable complexity arises from chaos.
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Pyrolysis creates reduced carbon! ...Time for the next step in our evolutionary symbiosis with fire.