When scientists finally create life from scratch (something only supposedly a God can do) ...?

Question

will it throw Creationism out the window?

I think I struck several raw nerves with that question (I'll pat myself on the back)

Answer 1

No....they'll just deny and ask for evidence as usual, completely ignoring it when you give it to them

Answer 2

Science doesn't need to, religion is a house of cards. Religion literally has no legs to stand on, I still think Creationism won't be thrown out the window, probably never. People think they need this sort of compass to give them direction, and I dare say there will always be hold-outs. Life from scratch is a toughie, I've seen science take simple life trapped in salt crystals for a hundred thousand years,and bring them back to life. Sheeple will have a hard time giving in to science. In the future these sheeple will be delegated to themselves, and not fit in mainstream society. This is alright with me we've all seen and continue to see their dogma affect human behavior negatively.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure that they've been able to synthesis amino acids, or some other molecule/chemical that is a starter for life. So, i hope that actual life-synthisis is not too far off. I, personally, cannot wait for that day to come. =)

As for disproving Creationism, i guess it can never be proven or disproven. Even if we are able to create life from 'scratch' it still does not disprove Creationism. It only proves that scientific technology has come very, very far.

edit: To "Anthony B" - Do you seriously not know that many many many animals have already been cloned? Well, i'll tell you that Dolly the sheep was the first animal to be cloned, and many animals have been cloned after that - dogs, cows, sheep, and others.

Answer 4

... except that scientists are NOT trying to 'create' life from scratch... what they are trying to do is (re)create the conditions under which precursor chemicals can be shown to self-organize to the point where life ARISES as an 'emergent property'... in accordance with forces, energy and processes that occur naturally, in the universe.


Readers... please not... some of the religious people who answered this are utterly incapable of even IMAGINING that such a thing could happen. Is it reasonable to expect them to acknowledge it when it actually DOES happen? It would probably be MORE reasonable to expect your pet parakeet to acknowledge it.


(Correction... some scientists ARE trying to 'create' life... but that has to do with 'artificial' life-forms... not the kind of life forms that are postulated to have arisen naturally, as described above.)

And NO... this would definitely NOT "... throw Creationism out the window." What do you expect?... that 'religion' would fold up their tents and go home, saying "OK... you win... you guys were right... we're wrong. Sorry about all the hundreds of millions of people we caused to be tortured and murdered. That seems to have been a bad idea."

Not bloody likely. Remember?... about 85% of the adult population of the USA BELIEVES in this codswallop (creationism). They don't go to scientists for their information about science... they go to the same religious puppet-masters that have been tellng that science is the work of the devil, for hundreds of years now. Why should THIS change anything? Answer: It won't.

No... the only thing that will change is in the mind of sane and rational people... people who already know that "we have no need of that hyputhesis" (god)... and that change will be in the form of "OK... that settles that, I guess... next."
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Answer 5

"If it takes this lots paintings and psychological enter to create a single enzyme from scratch, is it rather lifelike to think of that undirected evolutionary strategies ought to robotically accomplish this activity? " Hell definite. Evolution and nature are massively greater advantageous to human intelligence. It created a slime mould who does not actually have a suggestions yet can map the London Subway! Why are you intuiting a suggestions at the back of those strategies? that's a style blunders and a human failing pertaining to to suggestions wiring. Very cool. yet yet another closed hollow, creationists.

Answer 6

Well, they have pretty much crossed every threshold. They can do viruses from scratch. They have created brand new genomes of bacteria and the only thing they used was a membrane out of another. All they have to do is create a membrane (which isn't alive) and they will be able to do it totally from scratch.

As far as I can tell, every line has been crossed. It is only down to a single problem to do it all in a line. I give it 3-5 years.

If it hasn't bothered them yet, it won't when they do it.

Answer 7

Response: Gesus.Kryst

Cloning is basically reengineering, when you get down to it.
It is not actually creating something for scratch. I mean you might have see the cloned sheeps, but have you studied how the cloning process works? I don't think you do.

Well, creating life from scratch is very complex. I mean even creating a singel cell life form is hard. The probleam is not that it is hard just making, but the elements and cells that are combined and works to create a being that is the most hardest.

Look us, the human beings, and the elements and cells that works together to create us. There are soo many elements that take place to create a singel human being, that even today, it is hard to create a replica of such complex, desine.

Plus, to combine at certian stages and to create cells that are willing to work with each other and create by sharing the ideas is hard. 1st step trying creating protein cells and than
try them to create something, yes it is that complex.

these are only few of the elements that make up human beings:

oxygen, carbon, calcium, potassium, sulfur, sodium, magnesium, iron, fluorine, zinc, silicon, arsenic, tungsten,hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, nickel, copper

I think it is very hard to use anyother religious texts other than the Qu'ran on this. I mean I tried, but it doesn't add up anything. I tried the buddhist idea, which relies on way too many on myths, I mean the blue prints start ok, but after the first steps it just goes though myths after myths.

Did you know the blue prints and the study of Embryology studies are sources used from the Qu'ran! Also in many diffrent fields as well, such as astrology. Do you
know about prof. K. Moore, yes he is a Christian
and he himself admittes that the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that he couldn't have known all this out of no where. and the blue prints were tested. Also Dr. Tagatat Tejasen is also very popular in field of Anatomy and Ebryology. He was a Buddhist and converted to Islam, and tried to bring some of the Buddhist texts to see how it would match against the Qurans and later, when he tried to get the Buddhist texts and saw there was too real texts that touchs on the subject, but blue prints of buddhist cosmology.

Scientists says,Quran is from God & Mohammad s His Messenger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziGip7H4STo

*Dr. Tagatat Tejasen*
Anatomy : Scientist converted to islam after reading Quran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHr7OBQrKs

Scientist Prof. Moore's comment on embryology in Quran.1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycV_JLusJYk

Scientist Prof. Moore's comment on embryology in Quran.2/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSOd_NU1_-w


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Qur'an and Embryology 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOlMry_H2o

Qur'an and Embryology 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUaA0T6DCJo

Qur'an and Embryology 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGdyNu2N7R8

Answer 8

I think the whole point of Creationism is that God created the Universe, Heaven, Hell, the World and every living thing on it. And did it in six days ( on the seventh he/she rested ). When scientists can get near to doing the same, then I'll be impressed.

Answer 9

If, and it's a big "if", scientists are ever able to create even one living cell it will only confirm the fact that life here on earth did not arise through purely naturalistic causes.

Your question demonstrates this truth because it points out how with all of our chemistry and electron microscopes and biology and lasers we still cannot create even one strand of DNA from scratch. All we can do is to take existing DNA and modify it.

At the moment of conception, a fertilized human egg is about the size of a pinhead. Yet it contains information equivalent to about six billion "chemical letters." This is enough information to fill 1000 books, 500 pages thick with print so small you would need a microscope to read it!

Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, each is in effect a veritable microminiaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up of 100,000,000,000 atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

The "simple cell" turns out to be a miniaturized city of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design, including automated assembly plants and processing units featuring robot machines (protein molecules with as many as 3,000 atoms each in three-dimensional configurations) manufacturing hundreds of thousands of specific types of products. The system design exploits artificial languages and decoding systems, memory banks for information storage, elegant control systems regulating the automated assembly of components, error correction techniques and proofreading devices for quality control.

All by chance? All without a Designer?

Answer 10

Those who believe will probably say it is proof God was able to create life from nothing.
Those who don't will say it is proof life can start up without some higher being creating it.

People will continue to believe what they want, and the world will keep spinning. Ce la vie.

Answer 11

No...because they are NOT creating it from scratch. They are assembling it from things that already exist and designing it (Intelligent Design Theory, anyone). When and if they succeed, they will have merely created a self-replicating biological machine from existing parts. What's the difference between that and a robot designed to build more robots!? In essence, nothing at all!!!

Nice try...but when scientist can create anything ex nihilo, then maybe they will have stumbled onto something....until then, they are just building on God's work.