And they try again...

[hollodero]

(01-23-2017, 02:13 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Okey Doke. I should have learned that in ideology class not Biology. You could have saved me a semester of College.

I hope you took more out of that semester than just that one thing.

It's still a definition thing, like if Pluto is a planet or not. It depends on what a "planet" is. Here it depends on what "life" is. 
Many scientists consider your definition to be the scientific correct terminology, to my surprise. But it's still about terminology which is the difference between that and CC (which is about cause and effect and not about terminology).

And if we define the term "life" as stated in the OP - then the ideological question would be, what do we make out of it. Is this stage of "life" really the same kind of life that our laws and constitutions talk about. (I say no, for practical and maybe ideological reasons.) 
And bringing up such definitions in a political debate clearly is ideologically motivated, too.