2007-08-19 16:20:00 · 8 answers · asked by Harry W 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
exclude cloning.
Can a Human being be created with pure elements from the periodic table.
Elements that found in human beings are:
1. Oxygen (65%)
2. Carbon (18%)
3. Hydrogen (10%)
4. Nitrogen (3%)
5. Calcium (1.5%)
6. Phosphorus (1.0%)
7. Potassium (0.35%)
8. Sulfur (0.25%)
9. Sodium (0.15%)
10. Magnesium (0.05%)
11. Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Molybdenum, Fluorine, Chlorine, Iodine, Manganese, Cobalt, Iron (0.70%)
12. Lithium, Strontium, Aluminum, Silicon, Lead, Vanadium, Arsenic, Bromine (trace amounts)
2007-08-19 16:24:19 · update #1
For now, it is not yet possible to biologically manufacture human being by using the different elements comprising the cells. Still a viable egg cells and sperm cells are needed to fertilize and produce a zygote which will grow as a human being possibly without sexual intercourse. There is still insufficiency in understanding everything that makes life.
We can compare that to diamond. We know that diamond is a hard stone composed of carbon, yet a diamond cannot be produced just with science. That proves that science still has a long way to go to fully understand everything in existence.
2007-08-19 20:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about people whom donate sperm.. and then the respective female's whom recieve the donations? I believe they give birth with no intercourse involved.
To answer your question as you intended it, I don't believe at this point in time we are capable of such a feat. Although, I do remember reading a science journal which had fairly strong evidence supporting the idea that certain levels of electricity applied to specific organic compounds could create bacteria... I suppose this is a small step in the direction you are thinking.
2007-08-19 23:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by revolutionist1985 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you need an egg though to be fertalised but as far as sexual intercourse is involved, it's not nesseccery.
I think I know what you mean though and currently we havn't got the scientific knoweldge to create a human being purely from science without an egg and some sperm :)
2007-08-19 23:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by tehstefan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, put it all in a Ziploc bag and give it a few shakes. Something is likely to develop, but it takes more than a few elements to create a person, animal, or other organism.
Took God part of a day, and He didn't have baggies.
2007-08-20 02:59:23 · answer #4 · answered by Peggy K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can be created by en vitro fertilization. There is no way to do it without a viable human egg cell.
2007-08-19 23:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
apparently yes, where would the first people on earth have came from? had to have been by science, other wise how did we get here? no one was here to have intercourse, so it had to have been by the elements
2007-08-20 00:39:55 · answer #6 · answered by saraann24 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.....get these together and mix them and try to make a human............there is more to life than chemicals...you can't make a soul or spirit w/chemicals...only god can do that....read genesis in bible...good luck........
2007-08-20 16:22:01 · answer #7 · answered by Steve B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes of course.. they are called democrats
2007-08-19 23:29:00 · answer #8 · answered by pokerfaces55 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋