If scientists are successful in creating life in the lab, how will this benefit mankind?

Question

Other than satisfying his curiosity, and causing theists to panic, how will man be helped?

CONVICTI:---Cloning living tissue from living tissue is not creating life, it's merely copying it.

GYPSY:---The automobile is hardly an "observation" of nature.

GET A GRIP:---Yes, if they come together in the presence of rain wind and lightning, an accidental accumulation of atoms might just get the push it needs to become living tissue.
I don't know.----Do you?

BRENDA M:---In your world; what is Satan's incentive to show up for work every day? If he's evil, why would he give a damn what happens in your life?

MICHELLE:---Not necessarily, life might really have been an accidental accumulation of atoms that scientists learned to copy.

I'M AN ATHEIST:---There is truth in what you say.---We could really use the help of " believers" in confronting all our problems, instead of having them sit back and wait for some god to do it.

PAUL H:---I wish there was a special award for a good joke.--You made me chuckle.

SUSPENDOR:---See, they got you thinking already.---Maybe you'll be the one to help them to benefit mankind.

PFISTULATED COW:---I'm sure I would have gotten better answers on a more ap propriate site,but I wanted to give the "believers" something to think about.
It might be helpful if we can, some day, get these people to join us in the real world, so that we don't have to drag them thru a troubled world.

JIM D:----Yes, but how do you really feel about the present administration?
Are you fond of Republicans?
Are you thinking about switching parties?----Don't be shy.

Come on, you can tell me. I wont blow your secret.---Do you really have a picture of G.W. hanging above your bed, and do you really salute it every night on retiring?

Answer 1

As hard as it may be for some to accept, there are motivations beyond hubris and annoying godboxes to this work.

The project is to create a minimal organism. There are lots of fundamental questions about basic metabolic processes that are hard to untangle because pretty much every organism has complications and redundancies which have built up over time. Separating out all the complications and putting together a minimal organism will allow people to understand much about the basic mechanics of biological processes and systems at the level of the whole organism that are still being investigated. Creating one from scratch is the most fundamental and clear-cut demonstration that we understand how it works.

A minimal organism will also represent an important model system for scientific research. Many cellular systems have lots of complicated interconnections, and some of those are important and some of them are merely coincidental and don't play a functional role. A minimal organism would provide a much simpler environment for studying many biological processes.

There still are problems with the research, one of the big ones being that word has it that Venter plans to *PATENT* the minimal organism once he's found it, which will get in the way of its availability to other researchers, but that's a distinct issue from the fundamental scientific objectives.

My question back to the questioner is this: Why post this question here? R&S is about the worst place to get a sensible answer to your question. You know from the outset you're going to get a bunch of idiotic answers and useless spoutings of scripture from people who don't know what they're talking about.

Answer 2

There are some immediate benefits, as I see the possibility which, appears to be a certainty at some point.
Advantages:
1. Any administration that really likes sending other people to war will not be forced to make the average American a peasant by destroying our economy, monetary unit, freedoms and international reputation.
2. Card carrying Party members will have clones from which to harvest body parts and organs.
3. The Party might even manage legislation declaring that a clone is really only 1/50th of a human so that ownership will be no problem, well, at least legal…for party members.
Disadvantages:
1.The question of ethics will raise its ugly head.
2. This will probably not be a religious problem since religion voluntarily abandoned its claim to anything involving ethics centuries ago.
3. This will be a concern to intellectuals, people who read (especially our Constitution) and pretty much anybody not dumber than a dirt clod.
4. #3 will absolve the Party from any concern since it and its supporters are the dirt clod thingy and thus will be spared any dilemma.

If I had time to really ponder the question I might find some way to criticize the Bush “Administration”.
lol

Answer 3

craig ventner's team are just about to announce they have just constructed an artificial life form with totally synthetic components, it's not cloning; it's life from scratch. the end purpose is to see if they can create artificial bacteria that can be used to manufacture various compounds and chemicals such as ethenol and hydrogen for fuel.

no michelle it wil prove that even humans can create life after 250 years of real science the primeval earth had billions of complex organic carbon molecules and 3 billion years to do it in. all it needed was one single replicating molecule to form and there would be no stopping it. now the chances of that happening are very reasonable given the time and the materials available. the very nature of organic carbon molecules means that they will constantly change into ever more complex forms.

Answer 4

this world become the paradise of the living dead! People that are unnaturally born according to their kind;

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

People who are artificial in nature (not a living soul but a living flesh), man-made or created by man or lab-man (maybe cloned)! Like what's going on now in the face of earth some people now are living in a borrowed life using machine (pace makers) just to extend their life to a certain point till they become senile and totally inutile!
Hopefully they will remember their Creator God while they're alive and able to call upon Him! AMEN.

Answer 5

By creating life in a lab with intelligent scientist can only give credit to Intelligent Design. They have to sequence them properly and with the correct procedure.
Cloning is also "intelligent design" thought up by an intelligent person and requires intervention. Cloning does not happen on it's own.
Life needed a "cook".
If you put those primordial together and left them alone would they give life or would they need a little help?

Get A Grip

Answer 6

That kinda depends on WHAT life they create. I suppose there might be a limited market for mermaids and unicorns...

And the poster above that mentioned ecological benefits was really on to something. Oil eating bugs are already useful. Imagine hydrogen-pooping bugs!!!!

Answer 7

"Creating life in the lab" sounds like you really do need a "Creator" huh?
Several scientists got an excusive interview with God and one of them proudly spoke, "Hey God, just so you know, we are now able to create life in the lab which proves we don't need you. To which, God replied, "That's very interesting, please show me." As the scientists were setting up their equipment and filling various test tubes with materials, God spoke again, "Wait a minute, you get your own dirt!"

Answer 8

I don't think this odd. According to old beliefs by some, aliens actually cloned us from themselves from DNA, by the books written by Zecharia Sitchen. Soooo, why can't we do the same?

Answer 9

It will help us understand more thoroughly how life got started, something we're not too sure on at the moment. Science strives for knowledge. If it can end up being beneficial to the world, then they get bonus points.

Answer 10

It will prove there is a creator, for without the scientist 'creating' life, there would be none. (Think about it-if a scientist had to 'create' life in the lab, this would support totally ID.)