Persoanlly, I think the human race is de-evolving. We are a worthless lot.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:288379 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
