my pastor said only god can creat life.
i saw on t.v how they be trying to bring back people from freezing them.
do you think you can create lik god?
2007-09-20 11:31:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes it is called sex
2007-09-20 11:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Humans do not "create" material things. They can construct things out of materials. They can rearrange them in creative ways. But they can't make something out of nothing.
Your pastor isn't a scientist. He may have a layman's understanding of biology but he doesn't know the currrent state of biological science. We can modify life forms, swap the genes around to change characteristics at a crude level, but the techniques will only get better. Some day fairly soon we will be able to design life forms that are completely "new", but they will have to be grown just like any other life form. We will start with smaller, simpler ones, then later try more complex ones. But no one will waste time and money on a genetic design that doesn't have an intentional purpose.
As for bringing dead people back to life, that depends on how much they have decomposed. Some small animals hibernate in winter, actually freezing up, then thawing in the Spring. So we know that it can be done in theory with humans. The idea of freezing people would be for things like long space voyages, or to preserve dying people until there are cures for their diseases. But it's not magic. We'd still have to cure the disease.
No, science can change how we understand life, but it can't literally create "like God".
2007-09-20 19:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you accept everything your pastor says as fact worries me.
If you want to believe in a man in the sky so be it, but at least read a book, get out and see the world, question for yourself, live your own life, form opinions based on facts you understand etc.
I know I'm boring you, but to simply accept what one pastor tells you is ridiculous and possibly dangerous. Remember fundamentalists, of all faiths, start out this way.
2007-09-20 18:43:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those people in theory were alive and frozen so therefore not really creating life. But I do think that someday soon "life" will be able to be created in a lab. Life is just chemicals that can copy themselves. Everything else is an end to that means.
2007-09-20 18:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they cannot do this,what they have done is to clone existing lifeforms but this is not pure creation in itself.
If it were possible to do the evil one would have done so by now, your Pastor is correct none but God can create life and imbue that life with an immortal soul.
2007-09-20 18:38:19 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Create "life" as in new people?? ...we do that already - it's called SEX.
In terms of creating artificial life or resurrecting dead tissue... (shrug) ... hard to say. We may need to re-define "life" when we get to the point of nano-robotics acting in systems or true artificial intelligence.
Does that make us "like god" ?? ((shrug)) ... since atheists don't believe in god - you're asking if we're emulating a fictional / mythological character (yes, I know - y'all HATE it when I refer to christianity as a mythology ...sorry.) then maybe in some sense, at that point... we would be.
2007-09-20 18:38:49 · answer #6 · answered by Eric C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basic multi-celled life has already been "created" by sequencing DNA in its simplest form. No organism of that kind had previously existed.
But I expect your pastor has a very good answer to why this isn't so.
2007-09-20 18:37:44 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no. but we will form life from non-living matter. life, after all, is not a fundamental property of matter, it is just property that arises when matter is structured and patterned in certain ways (or so we think - perhaps you're skeptical, that's ok, but it would be nice if you could explain why). there is no need to "create" life, whatever that means.
2007-09-20 18:44:42 · answer #8 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference from bringing back life from previous life, than actually engineering the first spark of life.
2007-09-20 18:39:46 · answer #9 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem a bit confused between create and revive.
Never mind, you only have to take a man and a woman, and...
2007-09-20 18:36:29 · answer #10 · answered by didi 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's already happened. I've done it twice, in fact. Unless my memory has failed me, it was my husband that helped me to create life, not god.
2007-09-20 18:42:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋