What kind of an impact does it have on Genesis if it is sucessfull?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/artificial_life
2007-08-19 23:28:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've been saying this forever.
They want us to "prove" evolution to them. And we will someday, and when we do, they won't accept it. They will fight it at first, and then find a way to add it to their story. They will pretend they were right all along, and act as the new "proof" just makes their dogma theories stronger. And that is what makes them "Cults".
Their pride will run the show, there is no logic in religion, only arrogance.
2007-08-19 23:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by Apollo's Revenge 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I highly doubt it would have ANY impact on the Genesis account of the creation of the planet. The Genesis story is considered history, and absolutely nothing we do in this day and age will alter history. This is just as true of the Genesis account of creation as it is of the Revolutionary war: nothing we do now will change what happened then.
What it MAY affect, however, is Revelation. There are several plagues and disasters mentioned (as coming in the future as punishment) in Revelation. Who can say that at least one of those disasters/plagues couldn't be man-made? THAT would be scary: to think that our own scientists could, in their curiosity and arrogance, make a life-form so destructive that it could be a tool of judgement.
Hey, it was done in Steven King's book "The Stand", remember? The virus there was a man-made, enhanced version of the influenza virus.
2007-08-19 23:45:01 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
as the old joke goes,
the scientist goes up to god and says that hes figured out how to make life, and god chuckles and says "oh really, show me"
so the scientist takes a handful of dirt(read: raw materials, whatever) to put in the machine,
and God says "ah ah ah! Get your own dirt!"
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you can't within science, prove any origin concept. its definitionally untestable and undisprovable.
you might be able to prove that a certain origin concept is scientifically viable, but you can't prove its what happened.
additionally what science is doing, in a very legitimate angle, proves the religion people correct.
that is, that life being created, requires a designer, and absurdly specific conditions that for all intent, would not occur on their own in a natural setting.
and personally I think it sounds more like they are trying to make a genetically designed organic machine, rather than an actual life form.
one could argue that our own bodies are merely profoundly complex combinations of organic sub-machines, but I think theres a pretty big difference that is pretty obvious, yet nearly impossible to quantify.
2007-08-19 23:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by RW 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What's funny is that one of the biggest Creationist arguments is "if you know so durned much about biology and stuff, how come you scientists can't create life in a test tube?" And the God of the Gaps takes another hit...
2007-08-19 23:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like intelligent beings seeking to create life...hmmmmm What happened to the randomness of it all?
Personally I have started the clock... Again! They have been trying to create life for a long time already, and have failed over and over. I do not believe they will be successful in doing this and especially in a way that could have been done in a primordial soup. For example, Miller/Urey's experiment, although toted to be successful by media, was a failure. Why? 1) he cheated by using a trap. 2) he merely created a few left-hand amino acids, which could never support life. 3) he merely made up in his own mind the composition of an early earth atmosphere.
2007-08-19 23:32:27 · answer #5 · answered by Brian 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Genesis?
Why would Phil Collins care?
2007-08-19 23:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by Ella 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The main impact seems to be a 1000 repeat posts.
2007-08-19 23:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by The Son of Man 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Men will have the power to create new life forms..and allow evolution to take its course with them...it will be fascinating.....no end!!!
2007-08-19 23:32:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
see brian's answer. if this pans out, people like him will deliberately misunderstand what it means. if the talking snake didn't tip them off to the mythical nature of the text, nothing will.
2007-08-19 23:53:08 · answer #9 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't play around with God's laws of reproduction & get away with it, They have already tried it once in the garden between the serpent & Eve.
2007-08-19 23:36:00 · answer #10 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋