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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 4, 2013 at 4:46 pm
(February 1, 2013 at 6:37 am)Aractus Wrote: "Near Living"? Hardly. Crystals are built using pure chemical mechanics. Living cells are not. Why would any serious scientist make such a statement??
I did not know that. Would you be more specific about what cell function or mechanism doesn't use pure chemical mechanics? I feel a little bit ignorant, because I thought I had a good layman's understanding of the field, but if no serious scientist would make such a statement, I must be way behind on cytobiology.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 4, 2013 at 5:02 pm
(February 1, 2013 at 2:32 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: (February 1, 2013 at 2:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "Jesus" never worked a day in his life. Bastard lived on handouts. The ultimate welfare queen.
We're supposed to believe he was a carpenter before he started teaching. 
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
January 8, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Scientists never 'create' things: they trying mixing things together in weird, non natural and natural ways, and suddenly have a result they did not expect while 'playing with their interests as they were kids'.
Sometimes they can do things with that that were not intended when trying it out.
And then they start to gossip, to slander... and 'create' theories.
So scientists and their followers/believers (!!!) create theories, not things of their own. Unless we call these 'words' life, of course (and so they get "off course" here).
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
January 8, 2015 at 1:32 pm
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crysta...
January 8, 2015 at 1:41 pm
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crysta...
January 8, 2015 at 1:46 pm
(January 8, 2015 at 1:41 pm)Esquilax Wrote: We have rules against necroposting. If a thread is over 30 days old, start a new one.
Sorry indeed. Found now diverse topics on abiogenesis. i will read them now to enrichen myself. Sorry again. +je
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
January 30, 2015 at 9:15 pm
As much as I support abiogenesis and/or panspermia - creating life in a petri dish proves nothing about how life began on Earth. You prove it is possible, but history and science have a hard time getting about. I know scientists that don't consider paleontology science - it's 'natural history'. They have a point. If you can form a hypothesis and test it, it's hard to call the field a science.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
January 30, 2015 at 9:21 pm
I think you 'misspoke'. If you can form a hypothesis and test it, it's the very definition of science.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crysta...
January 30, 2015 at 11:10 pm
(January 8, 2015 at 1:30 pm)VAN BELLE Jean Marc Wrote: Scientists never 'create' things: they trying mixing things together in weird, non natural and natural ways, and suddenly have a result they did not expect while 'playing with their interests as they were kids'.
And painters apply a mix of pigments and base and smear the contents around on a canvas, if you want to be that technical about it.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crysta...
January 31, 2015 at 12:10 am
(January 8, 2015 at 1:30 pm)VAN BELLE Jean Marc Wrote: Scientists never 'create' things: they trying mixing things together in weird, non natural and natural ways, and suddenly have a result they did not expect while 'playing with their interests as they were kids'.
Sometimes they can do things with that that were not intended when trying it out.
And then they start to gossip, to slander... and 'create' theories.
So scientists and their followers/believers (!!!) create theories, not things of their own. Unless we call these 'words' life, of course (and so they get "off course" here).
... he typed on a computer that relies on QM theory to display anything on its monitor, powered by a transformer which uses electromagnetic theory in its design ...
I'm guessing that English is not your native tongue. If that's the case, I'd advise you that "theory" has a specific denotation when referring to science. If you don't know it, look it up, because it doesn't mean what you seem to think it does in this context.
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