"The chemical makeup of a living organism is the same as a dead one, so what's the difference? Where does the "spark of life" come from?"
Rebuttal
What "spark of life"?
If you smash a computer with a sledgehammer, its chemical composition will be the same as it was before the damage was done. Does this mean it should still work? Of course not. Yet no one concludes that a computer has some kind of mystical "spark" of life; it just has to be intact in order to function. The same is true for us.
Fallacy watch:
False dilemma fallacy (assumes that there are only two possible explanations for the difference between life and death: chemical makeup and the supernatural, thus totally ignoring other possible explanations such as structural integrity and process continuity)
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