Living things don't necessarily require DNA. RNA can be sufficient in many cases. As for being a long way off from creating DNA, well, we really thought that they were a long way off from creating RNA. The cellular structure is still hijacked though, the RNA needs something to protect it. My point is that these techniques are evolving fast (pun intended) and a replicating prokaryote which is most certainly "alive". I'm sure that at that point the "where does God come in" argument will probably switch to intelligence or awareness.
Judah On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > "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) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:288377 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
