(May 11, 2014 at 7:26 pm)RDK Wrote: When you find a chemical that makes life, let me know. We have been mixing the chemical pot for years without any success on making life. We have torn apart various component parts of living things, and have reformed combinations which are different from anything before, but that is not life. We are changing the portions of parts which were alive into new positions and say we have created life. We can combine but so far we do not create anything from scratch.
'We' have been doing this for a few decades. Nature had 50,000,000+ decades.
The conditions on the earth pre-life were dramatically different than they are now. For instance, there was no free oxygen in the ocean or atmosphere.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.