nj writes:
It says nothing about why anything should die, and moreover, why nothing on earth can ever defeat death. The point is that all living materials are temporal. What makes this law?
Who says nothing on earth can EVER defeat (programmed) death? It's not because nothing has been able thus far, that it could never happen.
One of the bigger reasons is that no lifeform thus far ever *cared* about it, such that mindless evolution was the only factor. It could well be that our desire to live longer might enable us to solve the engineering problems. (although because of the very un-human and un-systematic design process of natural selection, it might always remain out of reach because too many factors are intertwined in too much a complex way to ever re-engineer things adequately)
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