ABSTRACT
J. H. Woodger pointed to the importance of the fact that living things have parts which stand in a relation of existential dependence to one another—e.g., limbs, digestive organs, circulatory systems and brains. In the reproduction of living organisms, however, reproduction is essentially reduplication of all the essential features of the design. There are two key questions to be asked at the outset, questions which are continually debated by scientists and to which the answers are very far from clear: Is there a real unbridgeable gap between the living and the non-living and between man and the rest of the living world? The word science formerly meant the whole of knowledge; but by popular usage it has become more or less restricted to knowledge about objects in the natural world – that is the task of the natural sciences.
