Faith writes:
If you want to propose another term, fine, but semiosis seems to me to be quite appropriate.
It looks to me like semiosis, as used by creationists, is just numerology without the numbers.
Faith writes:
... how one gets from the chemical product to the traits of the living organism....
Chemicals have physical properties. There's nothing mysterious about that. A living organism is essentially just an enormous molecule with the sum total properties of its constituents.