A lifeless matter cannot turn into or give birth to life or consciousness, nor can sentience turn itself into non-living.

Guru notes that, by observation, it can be seen that lifeless matter cannot inspire action, only consciousness does.

Just as God is eternal, so lifeless matter in the 'formlessness' of dust and water has existed since before time.

It's easy to think of our bones as solid, lifeless matter where all of our living tissue just sits.

The time curtain had swept everything with it except lifeless matter and plants.

He has, as expected, mentioned about the creation of cosmos by two methods i.e. from life and from lifeless matter.

Anaximander also claimed that spontaneous generation continued to this day, with aquatic forms being produced directly from lifeless matter.

These quasi autonomous creatures exist in an absolutely synthetic sphere of lifeless matter.

There is no fundamental difference between a living organism and lifeless matter.

It is continually interacting with the lifeless [matter].