etc. but why can't we create humans out of a science lab? no i'm not talking about clones, why can't we create compounds and elements to Create humans? is this too much for the human brain to funtion? why wouldn't anything that was randomly created by chance be relatively easy for us to figure out how by now how to create? we have figured out So much stuff but we can't figure out how to Create people?
2006-11-11 20:54:50 · 11 answers · asked by Nikki 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think making a human would be the biggest problem, I think it would be giving it life. Humans can't even take a human body that has died, and is perfectly intact and give it life.
2006-11-11 21:07:21 · answer #1 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not so random really - life took more than a billion years to brew up the first time and that was a kind of cosmic fluke but it only had to happen once in one second of that billion years, anyway who would be around to complain if it hadn't ...
Science is not about just randomly trying to mix things together to see what happens - it is a slow process of observing natural phenomena and then trying to come up with an explanation for why things that we have observed happen the way they do - and then the work begins, and you test to see if your idea matches the facts and you spend years finding out minute details little by little and recording it all very carefully. Edison for example tried thousands of different materials to use as a filament in the electric light bulb - in the course of over 10 years and 12,000 experiments.
Making life is an idea that has not been seriously researched ever by anyone. Frankenstein was a great work of fiction not a research paper. Even when it comes to genetic engineering the best that we can do is very simple stuff -- and as for your examples medicines have been the product of as much as a hundred years of effort and study in some cases, machines like the computer in front of you are as simple as inventing the wheel compared to the number of complex components in just one bacterium. Robots are not much more than computers with wheels and maybe a few tools attached, cars and bridges are pretty basic and much less complicated than the computer - but all of these things were invented out of necessity. We create only what we need. We can already make humans in a much more pleasant way so why would we need to make artificial people in a lab? Currently we are still figuring out how people work - in order to help solve real problems like disease. I suppose that someone evil or unethical might try to make artificial people as a kind of slave but I think it is to our credit that we do not. That said given that slavery of humans is so easy to establish - again why would anyone bother to make artificial people?
Haven't you ever done something by accident that you couldn't seem to do again a second time with your best efforts? You know scored a point in a sport - written a poem - painted a picture that was so good you couldn't believe you had done it? Now make that something that no one has ever done before - not even you - and make it hard like going to the moon. Now make it ethically dubious and then try to go and get funding for it. Even geneticists have to pay bills dear - now add to that the controversial nature of this issue.
The question is not can we do it or not - such a horror is possible...given enough time and money. But I think the real question is who in their right mind would?
2006-11-12 07:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by Michael Darnell 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The processes behind natural selection are far too complex and, more to the point, far too time-intensive, to be carried out in a laboratory. Your question is provocative, in that you know exactly how false its logic is. And evolution is not the result of random chance. The people who told you so lied to you. If you are seriously interested in answering your questions about evolution and filling these gaps in your knowledge - which I doubt - you would read a proper book on the subject instead of hoping to get anything useful from the spontaneous soundbite-sized nuggets you get from strangers around the world here. I recommend The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, which apart from anything else is an excellent read. Do not expect him to support your idea of creation.
However, if you are not genuinely interested in answering these questions you will not look further than your own prejudices, probably thinking how clever you are for confounding us fools who actually think there is some truth in the theory. That is up to you.
(Oh, and don't forget to get a proper idea in your mind of what "theory" means.)
2006-11-12 05:52:54 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If that is the case then you don't understand what human is. Human is not a component of biology as biology component just a temporary house for human to show their existence in this dimension. Human body is the same as animal as far as biological is concern therefore you could see animal behavior in some human body. Through human body you could see clearly the works of EVIL and the works of God.
Could your parent and family and friends see you should you don't have body? What we call a human body without human soul in it?
Human is a soul not a body. Therefore we are talking about RELIGIOUS and SPIRITUAL so that we could keep CREATE PEOPLE through the tradisional way of animal. Do you get it?
2006-11-12 05:14:28 · answer #4 · answered by mad 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If something happened at random it means it was one out of an infinite number of possibilities. To reproduce it would therefor require an systematic study of all relevant factors that could be worked out in retrospect, which to determine through research would take an amount of time not infinite but extremely large.
2006-11-12 05:57:35 · answer #5 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the reason why we cannot create people is b/c there is that extra something (maybe spirit or soul) that you need to create a human. I would like to believe that person's answer about choosing to be here. Maybe we'll find out when we die.
2006-11-12 05:07:47 · answer #6 · answered by laylamarie2003 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We created ourselves already, we create through birth, deciding to come here in a vessel already predetermined, but we are spirit in true reality not flesh , that is an illusion that cannot be re created.
I AM
2006-11-12 05:02:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Give the scientist a fecking chance will you, they are still mapping the human genome for goodness sake.....geez nothing like the I want it all now attitude, patience!
2006-11-12 05:14:48 · answer #8 · answered by A_Geologist 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We can only transform matter, we can't even create a speck of dust from energy.
It would take a TREMENDOUS amount of energy to create a single gram of matter. That's what Einstein's theory demonstrated...that matter contains a tremendous amount of energy (hence nuke weapons) and that it would take a tremendous amount of energy to create matter.
Creating matter would require the power of God, so to speak.
2006-11-12 05:01:58 · answer #9 · answered by Kenneth 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am sure they do.they are not going to tell the public,with the
double helix D.N.A. the blueprint of live in there hands.I imagine them making super beings for purpose of war.This is why we
are in the last days on earth.Man thinks that they can play God !!!!!
2006-11-12 05:02:02 · answer #10 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋