Is the mineral world alive? Is there life in a rock, for example.?

Answer 1

The mineral world is alive.
There are higher forms of life and lower forms of life. Human life is the highest visible form of life on earth.
The animal life, the vegetable life and the mineral life are all lower forms of life.
If we compare the mineral life to the human life of course it is non existent. But the fact is that we can only compare two forms of life that are in the same category or let us say the same kingdom.

Movement and progress towards perfection are the two characteristics that define life.
The mineral kingdom is alive since there is movement in all the atoms. There is also progress towards perfection in the mineral kingdom. A charcoal can become a diamond and copper can become gold given certain conditions.

Answer 2

There is an idea floating around in metaphysics that matter under the influence of energy creates life. That would mean everything is alive. If this idea is true, then the life of a mineral is so different than what we call "life", as to render the term useless in Biology. What would be next, anything I imagine is life? Let's not go there, okay?

Answer 3

There may be life on the rock (lichens, for instance), but no, rocks are not alive, George.

Answer 4

no duhhhhh. Being alive consits of eating, breathing, and reproducing. Last time I checked, rocks dont do those things. But there could be living bacteria ON the rock, but as for the rock, it's as dead as........well.............a rock.