Science able to create life from scratch?

Question

Scientist predict they will soon be able to create life from chemicals. This proves that creation stories are false. Or does it? This life is being created in labs with extremely controlled conditions. Exacting amount of chemicals and the chemicals are not being formed out of thin air. But even given that if this life is created what does it mean for Christians? We should rejoice if they are able to do this. It proves that an intelligent designer is needed for the creation of life. If not the scientists would be able just to pour a bunch of chemicals together and get life. What do you think?

Capekicks

Actually the probability of getting a head or a tail on a coin flip is exactly the same every time you flip it. If I flip a coin 1 billion times the odds of getting it to land on its side is the same as if I flip it once. Not sure what the exact odds are but I can guarantee it is incredibly small.

Not getting many replies. Maybe because atheists can't figure out how to ridicule this.

vorenhutz

I see you find yourself amusing. However I have not heard anyone say that fire needs intelligence to create it. Unless you are saying lightening is intelligent.

Answer 1

This is the best question I have read on this site so far. I agree with your point of view. That is like the engineers telling GOD we can create life and when they reach for a handful of dirt GOD tells them they have to create their own dirt first.

Answer 2

here, i figured out how to ridicule your argument:

Scientist predict they will soon be able to create fire from chemicals. This proves that creation stories are false. Or does it? This fire is being created in labs with extremely controlled conditions. Exacting amount of chemicals and the chemicals are not being formed out of thin air. But even given that if this fire is created what does it mean for Christians? We should rejoice if they are able to do this. It proves that an intelligent designer is needed for the creation of fire. If not the scientists would be able just to pour a bunch of chemicals together and get fire. What do you think?

life of course is far more complex than fire, and certainly occurs naturally with a far lower frequency than fire. however all indications are that it is just as much a physical / chemical process as fire is. there are some similarities actually. fire is pure metabolism - no heredity or containment.

i'm imagining you as a proto-human, before the discovery of fire, arguing that fire is the provenance of the gods and could not be replicated by man. those people of course did not know that fire was a natural phenomenon, just as you apparently don't realise that life is a natural phenomenon.

i suppose that's not quite right. you're trying to use the newly discovered human ability to make fire to justify the prior belief that only intelligence could generate fire, ignoring the simpler interpretation.

Answer 3

Well...

Obviously the universe came from somewhere. God? I dunno. That explanation seems too primative to fully explain the vast workings of the universe. Especially common, popular religions. After all, the Bible was written at a time when man's boundaries were limited to this planet - more specifically the middle east. Only in recent centuries did the church even accept that the earth is round instead of flat.

The universe IS vast. Because of this vastness, even something with tiny odds of occuring will still happen, somewhere. It's just odds.

Making life isn't actually all that hard. The chemicals common on Earth during it's early period were very common and plentiful - both in the atmosphere and on the ground. Those same elements and gasses are common throughout the universe. Simply adding a charge (lightning?) will create simple amino acids. Given billions of years, amino acids to simple life isn't that much of a leap. Simple life to slightly more complex life isn't much of a leap. Given time, life will explode. This planet is the perfect place for life to thrive - there's water, we're close enough to the sun to not be frozen, but not so close that we're cooked. The earth is the correct diameter to have gravity strong enough to keep a suitable atmoshphere (gravity is dependent on the size of a body). The moon, for example, isn't large enough to have strong enough gravity to maintain a life-supporting atmosphere. The vital gasses just float away into space.

Look at technology. In the past 300 years, we've gone from smoke signals to digital cell phones. That's a HUGE leap in a relatively short period. Over billions of years, life has had a LONG time to make leaps and bounds.

I'm curious, why should only Christians rejoice? Humans and life in general existed on this planet long before Christ was even born - so Christianity is irrelevant to this discussion. I'm gonna go out on a limb here... you're Christian, right?

Answer 4

An atheist can only ridicule his own I.Q. Saying that the sun is cold does not change the reality that the sun is hot. Then you have those that claim that it all took was time and elemental conditions. And EUREKA! Billions of atoms of all types got together and created a cell, and then the cells became ambitious and decided to make a body. Being that atoms do not feed, they wanted to do something different for a change so they said: "Hey, you other atoms, why don't you make yourselves into something that I may like to eat?"And the other atoms did so. And then the eater said, guess what, I have no place to put this food, "you other atoms, get over here and make me a stomach!" And this continued all along and now we have human beings that live on earth and tine creatures miles below sea and land. Wow, what innovative little atoms... Atheists and their amazing imaginations. Sad to see these atoms become a failure after they have had billions of years to make the atheist brain work.

Answer 5

"If it takes this lots artwork and psychological enter to create a single enzyme from scratch, is it incredibly actual seeking to think of that undirected evolutionary methods could desire to mechanically accomplish this job? " Hell sure. Evolution and nature are extremely greater effective to human intelligence. It created a slime mould who does not also have a strategies yet can map the London Subway! Why are you intuiting a strategies at the back of those methods? this could be a variety blunders and a human failing on the subject count of strategies wiring. Very cool. yet yet another closed hollow, creationists.

Answer 6

Flip a coin 100 times and you'll get heads or tails. It's not gonna stand on edge.
Flip a coin a billion times and it will definitely stand on edge at least once.
Those chemicals had billions of years to rearrange themselves into various combinations.

Answer 7

Will never happen.

They might be able to have a bunch of chemicals but they cannot create "life"

Jesus is life.

They can mix as many chemicals together as they want but it will be missing a key compont, that spark of life only God can create.

did you know scientist can tell you some of the chemicals that are needed to create life but they cannot actually make it "live" They cannot understand how to actually make it "life"

Answer 8

Life cannot be created without something already in place for life to develop. I might be able to create a different lifeform but its potential was already there. You can create life from a thump nail but you can from a stem cell.

Answer 9

If Darwin was 120 years younger I'd date him!

Answer 10

i have the recipe for life in my book...

1 cup flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 lightning bolt