Is Life Just Chemistry?

Originally posted by Magee
Yes but until we create a human from nothingness the hardcore christians will not be happy chappys.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
But I didn't. I asked a valid question (it is valid because of the abundance of knowledge at our disposal and fingertips). We can send people to the moon, clone organisms, perform open heart surgery, make an ipod (er...uh...let me get back on track), communicate with people in other countries by phone or computer. We can do all of these amazing things [b]but we cannot create an eye, or skin, or an efficient heart. We cannot even make a kidney, lung, or bladder. We cannot even create blood. I really don't understand why we cannot do all of these things. We can create an automaton, but we cannot give it a brain that is able to process information faster than the fastest supercomputer? I am nonplussed.

God? Could You possibly be the Creator of the human body? [/B]

Originally posted by AngryManatee
Apparently they've been working on a man-made life form for almost eight years now.

Czech this

People like JIA will just come up with more excuses.

^It's too small, I can't read it with my eyes closed. 😆

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
^It's too small, I can't read it with my eyes closed. 😆

rofl big words for big kids 💃

🤣

Originally posted by ThePittman
Read the link, not impressed and see many holes in the logic. You also keep posting links saying that they can figure it out and the odds of it happening are astronomical, but the links that you keep posting and the research that they are using to support it are from books that were published 10 to 20 years ago which means the research that in it is even older than that. Do you understand the advancements in science that has happened since then and new breakthroughs in biology and our understanding? Back when these books were published they barely had an understanding of DNA much less mapped it. Bio-engineering is only in its infant stage, I have no doubt within my life time and definitely within yours that they will indeed reproduce life but you will still doubt that as well.

Selectively using old sources is a favorite of creationists...they act as if problems and misconceptions about evolution from the 1920's (pre-Modern Synthesis) are still present

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
If life's just chemistry, why can't God just be chemistry, JIA?

Because God is a Spirit.

JIA, I've posted the link like five times, even once in giant type... Stop ignoring it.

Originally posted by King Kandy
JIA, I've posted the link like five times, even once in giant type... Stop ignoring it.

What link?

I don't know, the one in GIANT TYPE near the top of the page?

How could you possibly miss it?

Originally posted by King Kandy
I don't know, the one in GIANT TYPE near the top of the page?

How could you possibly miss it?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
With all of our collective brain power, supercomputers the size of rooms, ingenuity, scientific prowess, savvy, complex machinery, robotics, education, B.A.s, B.S.s, Master degrees, and Phds--the [b]best that we can do is create spam (artifical meat), I mean artifical life? Come on now Shakyamunision, random, chance, fortuitous happenstance cannot be smarter than us, can it? Just maybe there is a God...hmm.

Jesus is given you and others like you a chance to repent of your sins. [/B]

WELL IF YOU"D CLICKED ON THE DAMN LINK YOU'D HAVE KNOWN THAT MICROBES HAVE BEEN CREATED!!!!

Originally posted by King Kandy
WELL IF YOU"D CLICKED ON THE DAMN LINK YOU'D HAVE KNOWN THAT MICROBES HAVE BEEN CREATED!!!!

I did click on it back when AngryManatee posted it. They have not created anything, they have simply taken preexistent material and manipulated its sequence of DNA.

No, they took DNA and turned it into a living creature... The DNA wasn't part of a living being when the used it.

Also, something you have to realize is that according to current theory, it took 11 billion years for life to come about on Earth... We've only really been trying to do it with our tech for 70 years. You'll have to give us a bit more time then that.

Originally posted by King Kandy
No, they took DNA and turned it into a living creature... The DNA wasn't part of a living being when the used it.

Also, something you have to realize is that according to current theory, it took 11 billion years for life to come about on Earth... We've only really been trying to do it with our tech for 70 years. You'll have to give us a bit more time then that.

The scientists took DNA from bacteria called Mycoplasma genitalium.

It still serves as evidence that we're getting ever closer, all it takes is time.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Is life just chemistry?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
So then life should be capable of being created in a laboratory right?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
I mean if life truly is just a bunch of chemicals then scientists should have no trouble producing life right?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
So then why haven't these erudite, scholarly, learned savants created life?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
What is the problem?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
The scientists took DNA from bacteria called Mycoplasma genitalium.