06 Oct 07
Originally posted by epiphinehasOf course it is significant. It's a good support God is not needed to create life. Makes religion once again incoherent and makes what science as achieved in accordance with itself.
In what way is man's ability to create artificial life spiritually significant? By doing so has man circumvented God? Or is man merely copying the existing pattern?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange
There can be a profound philosophical debate around this, but I don't have the patience to write.
We don't need gods. Some of us are intelligent enough to get there. How about you all? Do you need your gods to live?
06 Oct 07
Originally posted by serigadono .. I need God after Im dead
Of course it is significant. It's a good support God is not needed to create life. Makes religion once again incoherent and makes what science as achieved in accordance with itself.
There can be a profound philosophical debate around this, but I don't have the patience to write.
We don't need gods. Some of us are intelligent enough to get there. How about you all? Do you need your gods to live?
06 Oct 07
Originally posted by AThousandYoungYou don't understand nothing about biology. Please refrain from commenting what you don't understand.
[b]It is then transplanted into a living bacterial cell and in the final stage of the process it is expected to take control of the cell and in effect become a new life form.
That's not creating life. That's modifying life.[/b]
06 Oct 07
Originally posted by AThousandYoungI have to back Mr AThousandYoung.
I have a BS in Chemical Biology from UC Berkeley. Don't tell me what I know or don't know you tool.
You, on the other hand, are in Physics, not Biology.
According to the Press Release from the Craig Venter Institute :
Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the results of work on genome transplantation methods allowing them to transform one type of bacteria into another type dictated by the transplanted chromosome. The work, published online in the journal Science, by JCVI’s Carole Lartigue, Ph.D. and colleagues, outlines the methods and techniques used to change one bacterial species , Mycoplasma capricolum into another , Mycoplasma mycoides Large Colony (LC), by replacing one organism’s genome with the other one’s genome.
Press Release could be found here : http://www.jcvi.org/press/news/news_2007_06_28.php
The article in Science could be found here: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5838/632
(I don't have full access from my home, so I'll have to look into that later).
06 Oct 07
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThe next thing he will be telling us is that they have created matter as well as life. 😛
I have a BS in Chemical Biology from UC Berkeley. Don't tell me what I know or don't know you tool.
You, on the other hand, are in Physics, not Biology.
06 Oct 07
Originally posted by epic0002That does not make sense.
no .. I need God after Im dead
You do not need God to live but you need God after you are dead? That does not make any sense to me.
Is your god of the dead? Is the realm of death the only realm in which your god is relevant and useful?