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- adjective Not
living ;inanimate .
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Examples
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Hence, intelligent design provides the best — most causally adequate — explanation for the origin of the information necessary to produce the first life from simpler non-living chemicals.
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There isn't any evidence that living organisms can arise from non-living matter with intelligent intervention.
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Thomas Huxley, who coined the term abiogenesis to denote the idea that life evolved from non-living matter, gave a lecture at Edinburgh in 1868 called "On the Physical Basis of Life."
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YECs are opposed to blind and non-goal oriented processes giving rise to all living organisms from non-living goop.
19th Century Evangelical Scholars, Old Earth and Evolution 2010
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If life spontaneously arose from non-living matter, I would probably dismiss ID.
Another Look 2009
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There isn't any evidence that non-living matter and energy can give rise to living organisms through undirected/non-goal oriented processes.
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The work is a collection of treatises or lessons that deals with the most general (philosophical) principles of moving things, both living and non-living, rather than physical theories (in the modern sense) or investigations of the particular contents of the universe.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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In his ignorance Jerome had chosen a non-living electro/mechanical Lepton android.
A Simple Misunderstanding Harris Tobias 2011
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The most important non-living element of the Pine Barrens ecosystem is water, considering its availability and characteristic chemistry.
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YECs are opposed to blind and non-goal oriented processes giving rise to all living organisms from non-living goop.
19th Century Evangelical Scholars, Old Earth and Evolution 2010
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