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fact. If life were simply ‘elements arranging
themselves in order,’ then it follows that it should
survive only so long as this orderliness endured,
and it should conversely be possible for an expert
scientist to create life by an accumulation of
these elements; obviously, both these
propositions are preposterous. We observe that
it is not only those who have been torn limb
from limb in some accident, who die. In every
condition and at every age people are passing
away.
Sometimes perfectly healthy human beings
suffer sudden heart failure and die and no doctor
can provide an explanation for this. We may
regard a corpse as an ‘orderly, elemental
manifestation,’ but the soul, which inhabited it,
has departed. All elements are arranged in the
same order as they were a few minutes
beforehand, but they are utterly lifeless. This
shows that the organization of elemental matter
does not create life; rather life is an entirely
separate entity.
