At school the prof. could easily tell the origin of life. But why can't he/she show it at lab work? And if a mindless state could accomplish CREATING such spectacular grandeur -LIFE, how much more a flotilla of SECULAR scientists, funded by hundred million dollars, could do? Yeah, why not create life and silence the opposition.
2006-12-30 22:27:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Wow. That's just brilliant.
While we're at it, we also know how stars are formed, why haven't we created a star? Or a galaxy?
We know what gravity is ... why can't we create gravity? Why can't we stop it?
Your chemistry teacher could tell you the difference between carbon atoms and gold atoms ... couldn't he or she turn coal into gold in class? Did you not challenge him or her to do so?
Or a tree ... we know what a tree is, how it works ... why can't we build one from scratch? After all, you seem to believe that we cannot claim to know anything at all unless we can reproduce it in a lab.
All it takes is "superb technology."
And by the way, are you saying that "non-SECULAR" scientists (whatever that means ... I guess harnessing the power of prayer?), can do better?
You're so SMART. You must be some kinda EINSTEIN or somethin'.
The answer is that just saying we have "superb technology" doesn't mean we can solve ALL scientific problems at will. The earth took 1.2 billion years to produce life. We've been at it for only about 50 years. It's a hard problem.
Nevertheless, scientists are working on it ... and getting ever closer (see the work of Oparin, Miller-Urey, Martin-Russel, Cairns-Smith, Óro, Wächtershäuser, Spiegelman, etc. etc.)
And when they do do it (and they will), will that satisfy you? Will that really "silence the opposition." Yeah, right.
2006-12-31 03:45:08 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very difficult to find out how was the origin of life because it happened billions of years ago and there are no kind of "fossils" of this that we could exermine. So it all depends on the creativity of researchers to make a theory that can explain the origin of life, and we don't have such a theory yet. There are theories that give a hint how it might have been, but none of them can fully explain the origin of life yet. We know that the present polymers of life could not have formed spontaniously and assume that there must have been chemically different precursors, but it is still open to speculation what precursors that might have been.
You should understand that scientists never claim to know everything, but they are constantly searching. There are many many open questions, not only on the origin of life. This is also not about "silencing the opposition".
I am a PhD student of biology and I do research on the metabolism of a specific species of bacteria. Although I have my bacteria in my lab and so I have it much easier than the scientists who do research about something that does not exist anymore, my little bacteria keep so many mysteries from me that are so hard to find out. That is just how science works.
2006-12-31 08:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can create some proteins in a jar, but getting some kind of simple life (virus) from that just takes too damn long with the current system of trial and error evolution. OK so with some work you could MAKE a virus, but to get to the point of a hamster will still take a lot of trial and error. And then what do you have.. a hamster you could've got from the kid down the block instead of the billions spent developing it in the lab.
2006-12-31 06:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by Neebler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all simple, really.
Life cannot be created by one person alone, even if he knew the whole genome map of that organism and copied all the proteins and nucleotides he needed because - get this - it's just not the way to make one.
Everything undergoes a certain process, and creating life is not done by putting pieces together like a puzzle. That's why God produced males and females anyway, right?
[God producing males and females? It's another story; Can you say, perhaps, Theology? It's already out of my league, though.]
I hope that helps.
2006-12-31 07:06:37 · answer #4 · answered by spikedtolerance 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They already have her name is Amanda lives in Europe she's 6 now or about 6.That's all the fuss about stem cell research.
2006-12-31 07:57:56 · answer #5 · answered by one10soldier 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they're getting there . . . slowly. in 2002 for example they assembled a polio virus using off the shelf chemicals you can order through a catalogue.
maybe one day in biology class, instead of dissecting a frog, you will make one?
2006-12-31 07:04:43 · answer #6 · answered by waif 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋