Closer to synthetic life in the labs:

http://scitechdaily.com/chemists-work-on-synthetic-cell-creation/

Creationists can cry now.

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://scitechdaily.com/chemists-work-on-synthetic-cell-creation/

Creationists can cry now.

Why sound creationists cry? If they are successful, it would prove it did not happen by accident, but took intelligent design to do it.

The Instructor

Originally posted by RJHinds
Why sound creationists cry? If they are successful, it would prove it did not happen by accident, but took intelligent design to do it.

The Instructor

No, it would prove you don't need a god to create life. They would just be duplicating the natural conditions that existed billions of years ago on Earth that led up to life.

Originally posted by sonhouse
No, it would prove you don't need a god to create life. They would just be duplicating the natural conditions that existed billions of years ago on Earth that led up to life.

That's not strictly true. They have said that the mechanism they are using does not exist in nature and likely isn't what produced membranes in the ancient past. I doubt that there were detergents about back then so this mechanism couldn't be the real one.

Originally posted by Kepler
That's not strictly true. They have said that the mechanism they are using does not exist in nature and likely isn't what produced membranes in the ancient past. I doubt that there were detergents about back then so this mechanism couldn't be the real one.

This is true but it is only one small step. If they are successful, they can vary the way the membranes are produced. I think there was work done showing ordinary clay has pockets inside of which membranes can form under the right conditions, which I have no clue as to the exact conditions but that was one claim.

Originally posted by sonhouse
No, it would prove you don't need a god to create life. They would just be duplicating the natural conditions that existed billions of years ago on Earth that led up to life.

you don't need Matisse to paint beautiful paintings, van Gogh could do it too.


you lost this argument. to rjhinds. be ashamed.

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://scitechdaily.com/chemists-work-on-synthetic-cell-creation/

Creationists can cry now.

you'll be crying if they make some 7 headed dog... anythings possible down that line...

Originally posted by e4chris
you'll be crying if they make some 7 headed dog... anythings possible down that line...

A seven headed dog would be cool. We could call it something beginning with C .... Clarissa! That would be a good name for it.

Seriously, I don't think you should mix Greco-Roman myth with Christian myth, RJ will chastise you for that.

Originally posted by Kepler
A seven headed dog would be cool. We could call it something beginning with C .... Clarissa! That would be a good name for it.

Seriously, I don't think you should mix Greco-Roman myth with Christian myth, RJ will chastise you for that.

we should get clarissa together with my 9 tailed fox ahri for a play date. i am sure they will get along famously.

Originally posted by e4chris
you'll be crying if they make some 7 headed dog... anythings possible down that line...

or a 7 breasted giant chicken.....................yum.

Originally posted by stellspalfie
or a 7 breasted giant chicken.....................yum.

Or a 7 breasted giant .... OK, let's not go there.

Originally posted by Zahlanzi
we should get clarissa together with my 9 tailed fox ahri for a play date. i am sure they will get along famously.

So, heads or tails?

Originally posted by stellspalfie
or a 7 breasted giant chicken.....................yum.

a 7 breasted chicken is a good idea its only a matter of time

someone would have to design a bra for it tho... stop it falling over

Originally posted by e4chris
a 7 breasted chicken is a good idea its only a matter of time

someone would have to design a bra for it tho... stop it falling over

BRA? Hell, you would need a wheelbarrow!