Re: Life without evolution/evolution without life?

[Howard Pattee <***>]

> Howard: On what do you base the assertion that "life did not suddenly
> exist"??? I would agree if we are talking about evolved forms, but not
> if we are talking about life princple, or complexity, which i think is
> the driver for evolution of forms. My counter-assertion is that the
> principle itself did not evolve.


HP: The principle of life may have always existed. That is a metaphysical issue that 
cannot be empirically tested. How suddenly material realizations of this principle arose 
from the sterile Earth is not easy to test, but at least one can concieve of a test, and 
we do have a little evidence from fossils.