Thunder, Galileo was excommunicated for suggesting that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Lame? Perhaps, but literal interpretation demands the belief. Also, which version of Creation do you favor, the one day or seven day, the one where animals came before humans or the one where they came after? You like literal reading of the Bible so which is it?
The fuzzy boundary between life and nonlife is important because it shows that living things are not that different from some things we would consider to be nonliving. Viruses come to mind. They have some of the characteristics of life but not all, yet some claim they are alive. Thunderstorms have some of the characteristics of life but are rarely if ever considered to be alive. We are dealing with a soft science and need to realize the inexact nature of some of our definitions. Commonly accepted definitions of life are fine until you look very closely at some of the chemical assemblages that have many of the characteristics of life. To try to base one's rejection of a theory on a fuzzy boundary is folly.
