Oh, how the *&%% would YOU know?

Ah, well, then soap bubbles don't exist, then.

I didn't say the membrane was all that held the cell together, now did
I?  I said that if the membrane was soluble in water, the cell would
fall apart. Quite a different thing. Parse it out. An insoluble
membrane is necessary, but not sufficient.

There are membrane-only particles that can be made apart from cells, of
course, usually called liposomes. They really are held together by
nothing more than the bilayer membrane. Most cells also have a lot of
extra help, but it's all anchored into the membrane, which surely can't
disolve.

Violates physical laws?  You must be daft.

As explained, you've set up a straw man, and are whanging away at it.
Read what I wrote, then try again.

SBH

Your posts make me laugh.  I can't help but picture you as a scrawny
little nerd with no social life whatsoever... running around the
internet trying to pick a fight with people you know you'll never meet
in an effort to make you feel good about yourself.  I laugh because I
know you'd never have the guts to call anyone an idiot to their face.  
They'd squash you like a bug.

I'll concede that some animals can be enticed to eat white sugar, given
the right criteria, however, they will NOT "live off the sugar."  Hop on
over to Medline or JAMA or AJCN and look up the studies done on various
lab animals fed a white sugar diet.  They don't live... which is at the
heart of my point.  White sugar is a man-made substance.  It does not
occur in nature and can not *sustain* life... which is not true of its
unrefined counterpart.  Exactly the opposite is true... and there are
plenty of studies to support that statement (see above referneced
journals.)  Rodents can be kept alive for years on a diet of unrefined
cane or beet sugar because it's not empty calories.

Your water example also doesn't work for salt.  What lives on salt
water?

Since you seem to think you're the expert here, I took your advice and
looked up "inorganic" and "mineral"  Seems you're not as smart as you
think you are.

in·or·gan·ic - 1. Involving neither organic life nor the products of
organic life. 2. Not composed of organic matter.

min·er·al - A naturally occurring, homogeneous inorganic solid substance
having a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystalline
structure, color, and hardness.

Well would you look at that?  Dictionary.com used the word "inorganic"
right there in the definition of the word mineral... but if those words
meant exactly the same thing, HOW COULD THEY DO THAT?  You can't use a
word to define that same word.  You can't say "min·er·al - A naturally
occurring, homogeneous mineral..."

So, if inorganic and mineral meant exactly the same thing and were
redundant, then I could use them interchangebly like this:

The tires on my truck are inorganic.
The tires on my truck are mineral.

The soil on the moon is inorganic.
The soil on the moon is mineral.

Hhhhmmp... those sentences don't seem to mean the same thing.  Obviously
there are several elements that are inorganic but are not classified as
mineral.  Please refer to your middle school periodic table... or for
your convenience you can find one here:

http://wine1.sb.fsu.edu/chm1045/tables/period/period.htm

Socrates said "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."  
Your attitude and personality lead me (and others here, I'm sure) to
assume that you have a long way to go before you have gained true
knowledge.

You can keep trying, though.  Maybe some day your jack-a.s attitude will
get you laid andf asf dfgdf  BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Whooo boy... I
couldn't even finish that sentence without losing it.