I don’t know that interchanging the words God and Life works for every case, but I’m certainly one who believes that life begins at conception, if not earlier. And sometimes it is necessary to end that life. Anybody who’s had a miscarriage (one in five pregnancies) can probably relate to this. I don’t think ending a life means ending God either. Like matter and energy, life just changes forms. It’s a work in progress theory of the universe, but I think it has much merit.
To each their own.
I guess that depends on how you define life. If you’re by molecular or subatomic activity, then life is much more plentiful than we usually give credit for. I’ve always liked to consider the active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io as “alive.”
Without evidence it isn’t a theory, and unless all you have is a reinterpretation of two words(“If your redefine “Round” and “Square” to mean the same thing, you can fit a square peg in a round hole!”) then I don’t see any progress.
Maybe Pi as opposed to Pie. Infinitesimals have always made me ponder the mysteries of life. God. Love.
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Tell me: how do you define Life, Czarcasm?
They’re not, no matter how hard you wish for it to be true.
What might “its purpose” be?
Since you are the one who claims not to use any dictionary definition, it is still upon you to give us your definition.
This is in fact the working scientific theory of the universe. And there is no ‘God=Life’ equation required or implied.
Such wide thinking.
I just love Pie. 
You’re not the first nor the last to look for the God particle. Nobody has found one yet but it does appear to be shrinking at the rate just beyond the grasp of scientific discovery. Coincidence?
True, from a life is plane or animal state as contrasted with the dead state. But all that activity sure looks like life from a different perspective.
Religious thought tries to, among other things, define universal concepts, in Buddhism it’s called Dharma, so i would expect a convergence of old concepts, which I do see. Different faiths are to me glimpses of this, not the total.
Science is our understanding of our material world, which is useful to see more aspects of the dharma. As such science is scripture, it is common for religions to quote scriptures.
I don’t necessarily subscribe to God = Life, but I can entertain the concept, and without being demeaning or closed minded. I can add anything I have found on this to further the debate and perhaps the support of this thought experiment, and happy to see where it leads.
If done in good faith, it should as I see it, converge to the dharma, every faith to me does. Even such ones that have started out as intentionally phony, such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Jedi religion, & Scientology. Even extinct ones like the Greek gods.
Well, it’s not that I don’t use dictionary definitions; it’s just that I think this one needs to be expanded. Personal opinion.
This definition is the first one that Google provides, and I think gives us a good starting point for life: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
This definition negates my fanciful thinking, of course, but that’s kind of the point. I imagine there’s more to life than what this definition proclaims. I’d say there’s more to God as well.
Of course life doesn’t begin at conception. Life begins billions of years ago. And human life doesn’t begin at conception, either: It begins a million or so years ago, depending on precisely how you define “human”.
It’s life because, if you look at it in just the right way, it sorta looks like life?
There is no way to debate stuff this shallow-You guys have fun.
Thanks for your open-mindedness.
Demonstrably wrong to date. Every religion has attempted, at one time or another, to stifle the competing religion. This is still going on and there does not appear to be an end of it in our lifetime.
Demonstrably wrong. You do not understand science or it’s methods. Science discards ideas that are found to be incorrect. Religion seeks ways to redefine terms in order to support wrong conclusions in a new way.
I confess to not being able to parse the above in order to respond to it.
Hmmm. “Confess” is a pretty loaded (and religious sounding) term…