Life is nature and animals and humans. Life is doing something and being rewarded for the actions. Life is feelings, loving and being loved. Life is the building up everything great, pride, happiness and love to an ultimate high, and then being smacked in the face with reality, falling to the ultimate low. Life is waking up from a dream, or waking up to a dream come true.
Life is permanent change, or the ability to change.
I believe that life originated purely by the evolution of the cell, not through creationism. Although I am a somewhat religious person, there is so much information that I have come across that supports evolutionism that I am pushed to believe that the world could not have possibly been formed in one week. Evidence of dinosaurs and early types of man prove to me that life had to have evolved. The experiment that Stanley Miller did to form amino acids from gasses that are believed to have been on Earth in the very beginning shows that the building blocks of life are formed through gasses and elements. We saw in class ourselves the formation of coacervates from very simple materials.