The abundance of life in our environment leads scientists to propose that whenever and wherever conditions for life are favorable, it will spring into existence. This prediction was tested only once, when automated laboratories were sent to Mars in the 1970s to check for the presence of life. Since no other planet in the solar system is capable of supporting life as we know it, life here on earth is more unique than many individuals had previously supposed. If it can be shown that the capacity to form life is inherent in matter, as naturalistic evolutionists assert, we have the option of believing that life began here either by the spontaneous generation of primitive life forms under primordial conditions or by the creative act of a supernatural agent. Our knowledge of life from the evidence at hand argues against the notion of nonliving matter organizing itself spontaneously into life forms under any conditions at any time.
Life is a property of the entire complex.
If the living complex is taken apart, the system ceases to live. The most fundamental living systems are called cells. On an even higher level of organization are organ complexes called organisms. Even though components of living cells are not alive, they are unique and different from nonliving matter found at large. In nonliving matter elements combine to form sturdy, low molecular weight compounds of high oxygen content.