[SuoDuanDao]

It seems nonsensical in any case to claim something that contains life among its constituent parts is not itself alive. Plenty of organisms have 'dead' tissue as part of their gestalt and no one thinks of them as 'mostly' alive.

[Supermancho]

> It seems nonsensical in any case to claim something that contains life among its constituent parts is not itself alive.

Parts of yogurt are alive. Yogurt is not alive. I have no problem with this.

[cossatot]

Life isn't a constituent part of the Earth. It's a coating.

[Razengan]

That statement is such a gross oversimplification of a tiny fraction of the whole picture.

Life permeates deep into Earth and even influences its geology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#Resear...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum