By function I meant the rock actually does something. Rocks don't go around hunting for food, trying to find shelter, convert energy into usable energy. Their only function is to sit there. They don't HAVE to perform any complicated functions like gas conversion. They don't do anything. You're never going to see a rock get up and go to work, bring you your coffee and then finish the day with a nice game of poker while you're both complaining about how much life sucks."Mastermind, I don't believe you when you say a rock holds no functions...take away all the rocks (including a lot of the dirt since dirt is, for the most part, ground rocks) and the earth could not harbor human life. In that sense, the rocks keep us alive and anything that keeps us alive is, in essence, a part of us. That's a relativistic philosophy, but I must admit that I love rocks (and hence, geology.) Of course, the same is true of the water, the sun, and the weather, but this part of my post is dedicated solely to the rocks.
That doesn't change the fact that certain combinations are so unlikely to occur that to assume they do so by chance seems like a joke. I'm not going to see nature form a giant sword and have the wind make it float around and take over the world. From what I see, it is chemically impossible to have life randomly created. For example, if a lifeform required 3 different elements, but those elements could not survive in their needed form outside the organism, they will never come together since the environment of the other two elements might not be healthy for them(For example, one particle might thrive in water while the other would be dissolved by it). Again, a rock doesn't require precise engineering to survive. Life does.More confusion I've caused. I didn't mean any ordinary rock, I was pretty much referring to all the different rock types. I'm not saying you could pick up a piece of quartzite and smoosh it together with a chunk of halite and a living creature will spontaneously arise from the...whatever you would have. I'm just saying that all the elements that make up humans can be found in a natural, non-living form (such as rocks, clay, water, etc.) We are as much a part of the cycles of nature as anything.
