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Just because the DVD player is not getting energy doesn't mean it doesn't work. If it didn't work then it would not properly function even WITH electricity to 'power' it. The DVD player can however work without being powered, but cannot be tested to work without it.
You're forgetting the fact that the DVD player is useless when it can not be tested whether it works or not even íf it would work with energy. If you've never seen an egg hatch at all, you can't know for sure if it ever would with some unknown x-factor.
If all dvd players need energy to work, it's likely all dvd players of the same kind need energy to work, but that's about as far as this argument can go in proving anything. We haven't seen a dvd player work; reading DVDs, playing movies, without an energy input. Does this say anything about divine interference in the coming to existence of life? At least nothing in favor of it.
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Does a DVD player work if it's not plugged in? No, even though it is assembled correctly it still needs that 'breath of life" in order to work. It is the same thing with living things.
Vagueness prevails ... not  , just think about what 'breath of life' actually means in practice. It's a vague description that indicates a seemingly crucial part of the creation of life, as if it's a real factor (as in: divine).
Did you know that eggs only need warmth to start (actually to 'continue') the final phase of creating life inside it? Without the warmth nothing will happen. Still, there's nothing 'divine' about this 'breath of life' .. we can do it too, just take a warm lamp and put it close to the egg. It does need this warmth and yes you can thus argue that it needs a 'breath of life', but under normal conditions, this is exactly what would happen. God or no God, the important factor is adding this warmth.
The eggs will hatch and you'll get chickens. Off course, perhaps not áll eggs will hatch, but that would be because of internal biological reasons. Some eggs might not have been fertile at all or may have been faulty in whatever other way. All these processes can be followed rather closely and while there are still things we don't quite know, there's zero evidence for any divine interference.
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