The scriptural phrase is "whose breath is in their nostrilsx. Again, what I said is simple truth according to scripture: plants do not breathe air as plants and animals do
Yet another example of how ignorant this bronze-age text is. Plants use the respiration process (glycolysis and the Krebs cycle) exactly as animals do — in fact they 'invented' it first.
Plants use photosynthesis - using carbon dioxide and water (simplified explanation) and the energy from sunlight to build up complex carbohydrates that form the plant structure. At night when there is no sun they use the reverse process (respiration) to break some of their organic compounds back to carbon dioxide, water and energy (which is used to run the myriad of chemical reactions to support life) - in just the same way your body (and that of all animals) does also and for the same reason.
The only difference with plants is that they can do the process in a bi-directional way - animals can only do respiration.
And your ignorant text has to invoke 'nostrils' as a pre-requisite of defining what is alive? What a joke! And blood? How does the Bronze Age text interpret that? A red fluid by any chance?
Are you aware of the myriad of animals that neither breathes air through nostrils nor have 'red blood'? What about the liquids contained in the phylum vessels of plants? Such liquids perform the same function as your 'red blood'.
What a joke! You can see the ignorance of nature coming through in the first page of Genesis - God brought forth light and dark BEFORE he brought the sun into being - clearly showing the desert tribe who wrote the bible had no idea that our sun IS the source of our light.
Forgivable I suppose when you are a bronze-age nomadic shepherd - embarrassingly cringe-worthy if you are a 'supposedly' educated Westernised 21st century inhabitant however.
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