Within the next year or two scientists will likely create life from raw chemicals.
I just wonder if this will have any impact on how people view their religion or faith.
Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7041353.stm
2007-12-31 06:47:46 · 14 answers · asked by Twist 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It will just reaffirm my belief that life wasn't created by a God, but came about through a random series of chemical reactions that a scientist can recreate in a laboratory.
Plus, organic matter was already created in a lab in the 1950's...look up the Stanley Miller and Harold Urey experiment. All they did was electrify some gasses in a glass container, recreating the conditions of early Earth. Low and behold, life was created.
2007-12-31 06:57:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is interesting.
Couldn't affect my faith though and why? Because God has shown himself to me, simple as that and has given me something that never, ever, leaves me, since I was 17 and now am 48. .
If ,what you have read can happen then so be it but God is still the Sovereign ruler. I have no other belief but this.
I will read this over though, it seems interesting. Thanks
I read it all , hmmm... Can't see it ever happening though. It probably could never get approved anyway but who am I to say. Doesn't it kind of make you chuckle when you think about the things people try doing?
P.S.Twist, I like your doggy face. Looks like a Border Collie.
2007-12-31 12:03:24 · answer #2 · answered by Saved By Grace 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientists have been trying to create life for years. Since the urey Miller experiment in 1953 when they were able to fuse two amino acids together. The problem is nature has no way of sorting out left handed amino acids from right handed ones. A small protein chain needs about 100 left handed amino acids fused together with the right optical isomers. What people fail to realise when scientist's make these claims is that these things wouldn't be possible without intelligent intervention. In other words nature cannot accomplish this by itself which renders any experiments as non- proof of evolution. Evolution is about random mutuation/natural selection. Natural selection isn't scientists selecting and fusing together the correct components needed. That is intelligent interference. Nothing random about that. There is no evidence that Darwinian processes can take the multiple, coherent steps needed to build molecular machinery, the kind of machinery that fills the cell.
2007-12-31 07:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by Edward J 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is already possible to create life from raw chemicals. How much sophistication are you using to define "life". Cloning of humans is a reality. But ya know, faith is an interesting psychological phenomenon. Belief in anything amorphous is simply a matter of faith. I am an atheist. And my belief is a matter of faith as well. Changing the religious belief of any of us is fairly unlikely. No matter what.
2007-12-31 07:00:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No
2007-12-31 06:57:02 · answer #5 · answered by Steel Rain 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no.. ive always had faith in man to mess up nature and the world in general.. so far, so good.. will he create a new planet for this life?
2007-12-31 06:54:25 · answer #6 · answered by poop fungus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let's wait and see all the disorders and diseases that life has. It's artificial. It will not impact my religion or faith at all.
2007-12-31 06:53:51 · answer #7 · answered by ShaLaLaLaLaLaMyOhMy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.
2007-12-31 06:53:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They really can't create because they will use substances
2007-12-31 06:53:18 · answer #9 · answered by sego lily 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will not shake my faith at all :-)
They've already created life in the form of cloning and fertilizing frozen embryos..... yet God's promise remains His absolute word :-)
2007-12-31 06:53:08 · answer #10 · answered by Dana C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋