Think only god can create life? Want to know what science is on the verge of doing?

Question

Check out this article, its really amazing where science is going...all without religion or a god.
Science is on the verge of creating life from scratch, I wonder what Christians have to say about that?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/262724.stm

Answer 1

While cool!

What people are going to say is science is doing nothing and god will give the spark/whatever to make the life life.

Answer 2

I firmly believe that science and the Bible do not contradict but go hand in hand and science actually supports the Bible. It is our understanding that changes. Just a mere 200 years ago science/medicine endorsed blood letting as a cure. As we better understood and learned we found this to be untrue. In the 1930's a licensed dentist talked my Grandfather into having all of his teeth pulled to cure his arthritis (said it was the worst mistake he made) and in 1961 after my father had a heart attack the Dr at the Mayo clinic told him to switch to filtered cigarettes that the stress of quiting smoking was worse for his heart than smoking a filtered cigarette. Science is continually learning. Those that believe that poof and wallah and there it all was also have a lot to learn about the Bible. The time span covered between the end of the 1st sentence and the start of the 2nd sentence was billions of years. Yes there may be a flaw in the way you think about the Bible. I will put my money on the Bible being correct vs what you think you understand about the Bible being incorrect. By the way, if you think the Bible contradicts itself then I can tell you that it does not, that you are not reading it with understanding. Some will say really...What about an eye for an eye vs turn the other cheek? If you will take the time and read the complete chapters and verses you will see that they are addressing 2 different subjects and are not in contradiction. I hope in no way will you view my answer as an attack. I can see you want answers, but perhaps are not asking the right questions. I would suggest in searching for a good Bible teaching church. The very best of luck in your endeavors.

Answer 3

Hey dude ..go through the article and read it again. The things they are using to build the new form of life, are the living genes from a bacterium having minimal complexity of the genetic code. They are striping live genes from one bacterium and surround these with a cell wall, which is also living, only altering the genetic sequence.
I am not a christian but let me tell you only life will give birth to life. Nothing else will.

Answer 4

God vs. the Scientists

One day a group of eminent scientists got together and decided that mankind had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.

The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need You. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't You just retire?"

God listened very patiently to the man and then said, "Very well, but first, how about this: Let's have a Man-making contest."

To which the scientist replied, "Okay, great!" But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam."

The scientist said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God looked at him and said, "No, no, no You go get your own dirt!"

Answer 5

Checking out the site...
From scratch? Really?
Quoting from the website:
"They are proposing to take the genes from the simplest living organisms and use them to make completely new individuals which may then reproduce."
Please note that those "simple living organisms" referred to already exist, and they are already living. Science did not "create" those.
Ahh, well...nice try, though!
Perhaps one day, those scientists might, maybe, perhaps, if they don't kill us all in the process, make a cell from nothing but chemicals.
Maybe.

*yawn*

Wake me when they begin to make their own elements.
Thanks!

Answer 6

Actually, humans create life, not god.

God hasn't created life since he made our souls.

Humans make the bodies, and waiting souls enter them.

So if you think about it, God hasn't created humans since the very beginning.

But then again, I'm apathetic agnostic humanist......so I tend to lean towards there being no god. Or atleast not caring so much one way or another.

Answer 7

the essence of "life" itself is energy. remove energy, and there is no life. remove energy, and there is no existence. In physics i learned that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. only when a scientist can prove to me that he can actually create energy (which is impossible)..........only then will i believe that he can "create" life. the energy that will produce life is already contained in these individual genes. they simply need to be ordered in a specific manner.........that's a task that is easy for human hands. but can the scientist create the energy that is already in these genes?

~PhoeniX~

Answer 8

God is the great scientist we are now barely tapping into the carnal wisdom, we were created in his image so i would think these things will eventually happen we do have some intelligence ..... it changes nothing. In the last days knowledge will increase....that's what it says in the bible. no biggy. look to the eternal my friend........

Answer 9

These scientists will be in hell with the rest of the heathens


This should bein the science section, This is Religion HerE!

Answer 10

This came up in a previous question. A Christian objected:

'Not fair - they started with genes!'

CD