science has been able to discover the different thing needed in life but can they make artficial life. is it right to experiment with life.
2006-08-02 13:21:39 · 14 answers · asked by vampbookworm 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Not yet, and yes it's fine to experiment with life.
2006-08-02 13:27:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Science has yet to make life from "scratch". Science is trying so hard to create life from nothingness to prove that life could have started here on earth without an outside power (aka God). People will argue with this statement, but show me PROOF where life was created by scientists from the basic building blocks of life; essential elements. It's cheating to engineer DNA or use amino acids or proteins. It all has to form on it's own!
Is it right to experiment life? That's a huge question I don't know if any of us can answer. It's almost like asking if stem cell research is right or wrong even though it can benefit others. I think that's a question let up to your on conscience. How do you feel about it?
2006-08-10 12:43:13 · answer #2 · answered by natureutt78 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to let you know the first rule of Physics is that no energy (or life) can be created or destroyed. So with that, the only way science can create artificial life is by using something that is already alive. It is personal ethics that decides weather or not that is right. Does that make sense?
2006-08-02 13:28:28 · answer #3 · answered by Samuel_311_fan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The famous scientist to disprove spontaneous generation was Louis Pasteur (Pasteur pipette...sterilization techniques used in everylab from then on), however he disproved spontaneous generation, no living organism can just be from a pile of slop. But what if the "slop" had all the makings for life? The primordial soup if you will. Bible thumpers (sorry guys) say it can't be, however article after article in outstanding science journals say they keep getting closer and closer to figuring out what was first. The latest finding (that I know of) say bacteria wasn't first, but a type of virus. It just depends on you. I believe in evolution, macro and micro, however I believe there is a bigger force. The bible says there is a God, but it doesn't say how each animal etc. was created, people take the 7 days of creation to literally. These "seven" days could have happened over millenia, allowing evolution to take its course. Several citings in the Bible show where God controls things, but when nature is involved he begins it, then lets nature take her course. So to create life, no, but if given from God, that (whatever it was/is) will take its course in life and evolve to become.
2006-08-02 14:56:39 · answer #4 · answered by Just Curious 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes artificial life can be made that is what cloning can do but from the existing live cells and with the help of a foster mother. Changing an abiotic into biotic is not possible by humans and GOD has do it.
2006-08-02 23:40:59 · answer #5 · answered by Watcher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the rules you lay out for creating life. If I can set the rules, then yes it is possible. Whether it is right or not is a philosophical question.
2006-08-02 14:16:44 · answer #6 · answered by gtoacp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Within the limited bounds of my present knowledge and the limitless bounds of my imagination, not only is it possible to recreate the conditions for evolution, the process of chemical constructs that are needed preconditions for biochemical constructs, but it is possible to create alien constructs that could not exist 'naturally' on earth or contrarily nothing could live with them on earth. Is it right? I do not believe it is needed, but experimentation is needed to have knowledge of existing life, pre-existing life.
2006-08-02 13:41:31 · answer #7 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. I DON'T THINK ITS RIGHT AND THEY SHOULD'NT EVEN TRY TOO. CREATING LIFE IS A POWER ONLY GOD HAS. BY US TRYING TO CREATE LIFE WE ARE TRYING TO PLAY GOD AND IN THE END WE WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR OUR CONSEQUENCES.
WHATS THE USE OF CREATING A LIFE JUST TO TAKE IT AWAY LATER ON. WE SHOULD LEAVE LIFE CREATIONISM TO THE ONLY PERSON WHO UNDERSTANDS IT. THAT PERSON BEING GOD.
2006-08-10 03:20:30 · answer #8 · answered by Adrian R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think it's right to experiment with life. Life is too unique to have people go around playing with it. i could go on with pages full of other reasons.
2006-08-02 13:27:49 · answer #9 · answered by lobster17 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it is not. I learned this in science class. I forgot wat the scientist's name was but he proved that life cannot happen spontaniously. It must have created it. I cant remember his name but i know he tested it with magots.
2006-08-02 14:25:30 · answer #10 · answered by >???<Chinita>???< 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋