can humans create or manufacture a living thing?

Answer 1

No. They can only manipulate what is already present. This would be akin to scientist being able to create something out of nothing. They can only work with that which currently exists.

If you think that cloning or making babies is answering the question, reread the question. You are not even close.

Answer 2

Yes... although it depends somewhat on your definition of "living thing"

+ we have synthesised DNA and RNA from basic raw materials
+ We have created entirely artificial viruses which could use DNA or RNA that we have made
+ We have synthesised DNA and injected it into living cells (using viruses) so that it entirely replaces the original DNA. This means that the cell is now man-made because after a few weeks every chemical in that cell will have been made by the artificial DNA
+ We have genetically engineered living things so that they are entirely different from the original.
+ We have interbred animals that would not normally interbreed and so created new living things (e.g. the horse/zebra cross)
+ we have cloned animals (notably Dolly the Sheep) which has created creatures which can be described as "manufactured" and would not exist under any natural environment.

There is no biological difference between this and creating life entirely from scratch other than the fact that using a pre-existing cell is far easier than creating one from raw ingredients. Nevertheless, some primitive "cells" have been created using liposomes (hollow blobs of oil).

To create a fully living thing from basic chemicals is entirely possible but would be an incredibly long-term experiment that would involve a basic re-run of a billion years of evolution.

Answer 3

Depends upon how you define living. If one takes the classic scientific definition not yet but probably in hte furture. If you take a religious view never because only god can create life.

Personally I incline to the former view.

Answer 4

Yes.

A lab in Europe has just reported doing so. At present only simple bacteria, with the idea of genetically engineering them to ferment biofuels.

I am not so sure its a great idea.

Answer 5

Nope. Not from scratch.

There doesn't seem to be any evidence at all that life can be intelligently designed - it's almost certainly too complex to have been the result of design processes.

Answer 6

Man cannot create life from lifelessness. In other words, man cannot create something from nothing, that is something only God, the Creator, can do.

Answer 7

Dolly

Answer 8

Go build a car ,then ask the car to build some more cars .If the car say yes ,then only will it be posible

Answer 9

yes

scientists made Dolly, the sheep that was cloned, by manufacturing it.

Answer 10

We think it's been done at the smallest cellular level, but so far it's not productive.