I was thinking about the expression "Non-life" and in particular with regards to Abiogenesis. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe this is expression is used when people talk about how the first life arose; it went from "non-life" to "life".
However, I thought perhaps another way of describing "non-life" is "dead". If something is not alive, it is dead. Obviously. And yet, at some point it went from being dead to alive.
So, I was wondering why it is that some regard the resurrection of Jesus to be unscientific, as nothing can come to life if it is dead, and yet that is sort of what is supposed to be what happened at the start...just a thought.
I think we need to be careful about these words and what it is we're describing. The emergence of life essentially hinged on the arrival of organic chemistry (hydrocarbons), which facilitated more complex molecules, enzymes and eventually life forms to develop. Life as a word is something we attribute to things that seem to self-preserve and have some inherent structure and signalling processes actively working. Dead is then framed with respects to life, namely the cessation of it.
So the dead returning to life is not actually the same as the emergence of life. They are different phenomenon and this is overlooked by your reduction of the evidence to a duality of ‘life:no-life’. As with all reductions like this, you’re going to lose information, and it’s in the detail you sacrifice that the answers lie.
Of course that’s not to say that it’s definitely impossible to return to life. For one the definition of death, what constitutes it and when the moment of death is can be sketchy. In medicine for example it’s based on certain measurable signs that if present together for a sustained period of time correlate heavily with death. (No central pulse, no breathing, dilated pupils etc). So one can pose the philosophical question of whether someone can ever come back from death, or whether it was just mistakenly labelled as death. (as evident by the return to life).
Additionally with Einstein’s relativity, there can be disagreement among observers as to the precise timing of events that happen in the universe, such as your death. Different observers may disagree as to the exact moment of it happening, and because time is not fixed, but is rather an aspect of spacetime, none of these observers are actually wrong.
