The term a-bio-genesis is perhaps in your favor if it should mean that a structure's governing principle is emergent rather than original. But such a principle (whether or not we discover a point in time when all matter was dead) has traditionally been called life.
I do hope you don't object to the science of biology. : )
I definitely believe that assemblies have properties that cannot be seen or predicted from the properties of their constituents. Call them emergent properties or whatever.
This is one of the reasons I find it silly to have arbitrarily limited expectation of what is possible with "matter", or to divide existence into matter and spirit. I can't prove this dichotomy isn't real and true, but I haven't seen the need for it.