Create "life" out of inanimate material. ABC News did a story on this yesterday, but it is not on their website, so I have no links to provide. But that is apparently the big story in science this week.
They're Finally Trying to do it!
Discussion in 'Creation vs. Evolution' started by Eric B, Jul 16, 2003.
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And if they CANNOT create life? That would
have to mean that for life to have happened without GOD would be TOTALLY ridiculous.
Already scientists have been attempting to
CREATE another species by radiating fruit-flies.
That hasn't happened either with ALL their
diligence.
Do scientists lack the diligence of Nature? Seems
to me that Nature doesn't have a manipulative
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I think you lack the facts on what the scientists are actually doing. -
But Nature can establish life even though it
attempts NOTHING... -
Gene Wilder already did this in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.
"It's pronounced FRAHNK-en-steen!" -
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If we are ever successful in this endeavor it will only prove that people can be really clever. Apart from that, one needs to demonstrate natural conditions for something like this to occur in order to substantiate abiogenesis. I don't think that will happen any time soon.
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To Christians who don't believe that man will ever create life, I'd say... don't bet on it. Man can be pretty clever, and I believe it may be possible for man to engineer a living organism someday. But, I do not think they will ever be able to demonstrate that life can arise under truely naturalistic conditions. I think the origin-of-life experiments will continue to illustrate the "brick wall" that naturalists pretend does not exist. -
If a scientist sets out to create "life" - how do we know if he succeeded? What does he have to create to qualify that as "life"?
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Imogene Coca :D
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A number of evolutionists have tried to divorce abiogenesis from evolution. I would refer them to an article in the May 28 BMC Evolutionary Biology (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcevolbiol/)
which has an article about abiogenesis -- for they (silly of them!) actually consider that evolution involves abiogenesis as well... -
As far as humans creating life in the lab, creationists always have an out. They will merely assert that it took intelligence to create the life. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I really don't find the abiogenesis argument compelling for either side.