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Originally Posted by Mentious
Funny. Try to grow some plants or food without it. And give a try to locking yourself in darkness for a few months.
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I meant contributed on an elemental basis, that is, the process by which heavier elements(up to approximately iron) are formed in fact takes place in the sun, but those heavier elements will never be dispersed due to restrictions on the sun's physical parameters. All of the atomic matter on earth was formed by suns other than our own.
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Why? Our sun is our sun. It is not the other stars. Only that sun is the sun that, in an evolutionary schema, grew our particular forms of life.
Only one particular method of logic, and a shallow one, equates our sun to 'all the other stars' or 'just one of the stars.'
It's a little like equating your father to "all other fathers," but a grander error than even that.
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OK, but you specified that 'physically' we all come from the [our] sun, which is incorrect. Instead of arguing this point further, we could aim for a middle-ground position by acknowledging that the sun provided the energy needed to foster and sustain life, but not the matter of which life is composed.