Seems that University of Florida scientists think they can.
http://news.ufl.edu/2004/02/20/artificialdna/
2006-12-12 05:16:41 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God, the Flying Spaghetti Monster does it by wiggling His noodley appendages.
Some of us can do it too.
2006-12-12 05:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
We at the University of Florida are god-like, so of course we can create living organisms from elements.
2006-12-12 15:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by Mal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if we could create living organisms it would just be copying God's amazing work. The level of difficulty would be enormous just to do that. Starting with just elements the complexity would likely be insurmountable. Assemble amino acids into proteins and then assemble living working cells? Good luck!
WellTraveledProg Said... "I love how religious people state things like "it took god to make the elements out of nothing" as if it were a proven fact. There are none so blind as those who will not see..." ........WOW! That’s about the most arrogant and insulting bit of atheist dogma I’ve ever seen!
2006-12-12 13:29:23 · answer #3 · answered by mikearion 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love how religious people state things like "it took god to make the elements out of nothing" as if it were a proven fact. There are none so blind as those who will not see...
There are two things such people don't understand about the real world and science. The first is that there is no evidence of any kind that "god" had anything to do with creating anything. None. Yet, as with the article above, there is considerable evidence to show that the processes of life can arise through completey natural means, that no supernatural "creation force" is needed in any way.
The second thing they do not understand is the concept of the progress of knowledge through the scientific method. Are there things that science can't provide the answers to TODAY given a strictly natural origin? Of course. That in itself does not prove that god had anything to do with it, it just proves we don't know -- yet. Next month, or next year, or next century it's likely we WILL know. 100 years ago, religionists were still arguing about how "high" in space heaven was -- now we've seen billions of light years out, no heaven. 400 years ago, Galileo was condemned for daring to support the idea that the earth orbited the sun -- now we know it does. All it takes is time for science to answer the questions we do not yet have answers to. And that same time brings down yet more claims of religion to truth.
You folks really shouldn't state things as fact when there is no evidence of any kind to support them -- it just makes you appear more ignorant and closed-minded.
2006-12-12 13:28:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 10 years ago they put together the chemicals that scientists believed to be involved in the "hot soup" and zapped it with a major electrical discharge and created most of the amino acids that are necessary to build a DNA chain.
This is just further evidence of the evolutionary process.
2006-12-12 13:24:59 · answer #5 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It certainly does not take god to do chemistry. The UoF researchers have a ways to go to have created life, but it is an interesting step. Eventually, the problem will be fully solved, and it will be possible to show the particular steps that could have, and probably did, create life as we know it.
2006-12-12 13:24:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mary Shelley had the same question. Many doctors seem to think they can create life but all they really do is prolong the inevitable; sometimes they prolong the suffering. Is man a simple collection of element or is their something more a soul a spirit? The real question people need to ask themselves is, is there a God and who is he? Find the answer to that and you'll have your answer.
2006-12-12 13:26:06 · answer #7 · answered by Ron P 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God can not create living organisms, but some living organisms can create a God/ many Gods, if they have sufficient imagination.
2006-12-12 13:21:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
ok first of all they are definitely doing a great job by trying to let earth polymerases accept their artificial DNA...but they will never ever be able to create a full living creature(duh!!)..god is the only one who's able to creat living things...i agree that they are able now to help healing some serious diseases they were not able to heal before...but creating a new DNA doesn't mean creating the hole creature..also i can't see how dose that help Darwin's theory!!!
2006-12-12 13:39:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And you note, all the systems that achive this were disigned by someone.
Also, the DNA-like materials were isolated from living systems because biological polymers must be homochiral, which doesn't occur in nature...
It still takes God.
2006-12-12 13:25:36 · answer #10 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋