Maybe if you explained your own position first, it would help us better explain it. What do YOU think happens to it?
Energy in food transforms into calories, energy in light and heat transforms as it consumes oxygen. It changes, yet the scientific absolute remains, energy remains constant. My position - I think the energy of life when the physical body does, also transforms into another state.
Perhaps a better way to look at it would be this: When you eat an apple, what happens to that energy? If you leave an apple to rot, what happens to it's energy?
If you eat an apple, the energy from it, primarily sugar, transforms into calories - used as energy for the body, or stored as fat. If you let it rot, the apple's energy still transforms to sugar, but is absorbed by the earth where it rotted and becomes compost, an energy rich medium. and allows another energy body in stasis - a seed, to symbiotically form life.
And what is the 'energy of life', presuming you think that this undetected, separate form energy that must exist in another 'plane' and/or unknown dimension, in spite of all we could deduce about it from its apparent effect on the physical world suggesting it is imaginary, is real? What a long sentence.
I don't know - I can't prove anything. Just in my experience, life is more than the sum of it's reductionist parts. There is a saying that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Is that Mark E Smith in your avatar?
Shurrup then ya pillock. No, I knew people would say that though when I selected the pic. It's Anthony Burgess.
If this was snooker the referee would have re racked a long time ago. If he was a clever referee he would have swallowed the cue ball.
And we still don't know if anything does. The tests may just be inaccurate. They'll re-run them and see whether they hold up to scrutiny or not. That's one of the good things about science. If they get something wrong, then they just admit it and update things. They don't just go, "well that's not what it says in this old book!", and ignore the evidence.
