[[How do you know the enzyme isn’t what produces life?]]
That should have read
How do you know the enzyme isn’t what produces Soul?
however, thinking about it further, it appears from the word for soul “Nephesh” that is takes ‘breath’ in order for the soul to be present I believe- Although there is a thought that aborted fetuses and even eggs that do not survive to completion, go to be with God- but I don’t know the arguments for either of those cases- It seems more plausible that the soul needs breath in order to be present
But another thought is that God does wish to share His glory with many- and perhaps, all it takes is a ‘spark of the soul’ for ‘life’ to happen in the eternal realm (after the spark, maybe the spirit is fully instilled ‘at breath’, but perhaps just a spark is all that is needed in order for that ‘almost being’ to be present with God for eternity- a wild thought i know-) - perhaps, and hti is just a thought, God uses failed pregnancies, and perhaps even ‘sparks’ in non viable eggs, to produce ‘beings’ that will inhabit Heaven with Him- If so, these are the lucky beings- never having to deal with sin and trials etc-
Meh- what if, what if- perhaps=-
I just heard about this story and came to FR to see if it was posted already and sure enough it was.
About your question here: at best, the reaction visualized in this experiment could indeed be a signal as to when the soul is (normally) infused into the baby, however no chemical reaction, no physical process produces the soul. Each soul is created, ex nihilo, by God. There is no physical process that makes it. Each individual human soul is the product of the same creative force that created the universe, God's Will (His Love really), an infinite power that can (and does every instant) create something out of nothing.
What the atheistic evolutionist would have us believe is that what makes us truly human is a product of some evolutionary process. I certainly believe "evolution" occurrs but only as a means by which God created (and creates) Man's physical form. The soul though didn't "evolve" every soul is created by God.
However to ask if this enzymatic reaction "produces" the soul is to reduce its creation to a chemical reaction, which plays right into the hands of the evolutionary atheist. The soul is spiritually real, not a product of anything in the physical realm. Its reality transcends the physical world (in that sense it can be said the soul is "more real" than anything produced or observed by science).