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A living human being cannot be produced in a
laboratory, though such a physical form can
readily be formulated. We have ascertained that
the particles that compose a living body consist
of normal atoms. The carbon in it is the same as
that found in charcoal, its hydrogen and oxygen
are the same as that which constitute water, its
nitrogen is exactly the same gas as that which
accounts for most of the atmosphere, and so
on. But is it true to say that a living human being
is a specific collection of ordinary atoms that
have been arranged in an extraordinary way?
Or is it something else besides this? Scientists
admit that although we know that the body is
fabricated of certain material particles, we are
still not in a position to create life just by
combining these same particles. This proves that
the body of a living human being is not just a
conglomerate of inanimate atoms. It is rather a
combination of ‘life’ and ‘atoms’. After death,
the conglomerate of ‘atoms’ remains visible to
us, while ‘life’ departs for another world.
