"Pretty soon here there will be new living things created from the ground up with basic chemicals, amino acids. How is religion going to act? Where is God's divine part in the creation of life at that point? I do think that people can be both religious and scientific and I've known plenty of them. There is a bit of undeniable turf war though as there is a long history of things that we thought were irreducibly complex and unknowable are actually knowable."
They've created RNA in a lab, recently, they're still a long way off from creating DNA, and even still farther off from creating anything even remotely resembling a living creature. In order to understand the plan you have to understand, how the building blocks work, and how the mechanisms that were set in motion create those building blocks.. They still haven't found the "divine spark" (insert Allspark joke here) Judah McAuley wrote: > I'm fine with the scenario you just painted. The problem, > historically, has been that basically religion is in charge of the > unknowable and science is in charge of the knowable. Which is fine > except that the sphere of the unknowable keeps shrinking and that > tends to make people very uncomfortable. Science tends to keep > elbowing out religion from places it formerly had a strong foothold > and that tends to create blowback. Entirely understandable, it's quite > human. But that's the conflict. > > Pretty soon here there will be new living things created from the > ground up with basic chemicals, amino acids. How is religion going to > act? Where is God's divine part in the creation of life at that point? > I do think that people can be both religious and scientific and I've > known plenty of them. There is a bit of undeniable turf war though as > there is a long history of things that we thought were irreducibly > complex and unknowable are actually knowable. > > Judah > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <on soapbox> >> I've never gotten the concept that religion and science can't work very >> well together. Why wouldn't God have the foresight to create beings that >> can evolve and adapt as the planet changes. Why wouldn't God plant a >> seed (Australopithecus) and allow it to grow and change as it's >> circumstances did (Homo-Sapiens). >> >> I'm a firm believer in the big bang, and the expanding universe theory, >> but that initial mass had to get there somehow. >> >> We have the intelligence we have for a reason, there's a plan for our >> species and a plan to the universe, we're meant to discover that >> plan..(science) >> >> </off soapbox> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288374 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
