RE: Scientists create synthetic life.
May 21, 2010 at 1:37 am
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2010 at 1:40 am by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
(May 21, 2010 at 1:27 am)Minimalist Wrote:(May 21, 2010 at 12:44 am)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: no Christians have responded to this yet?
They're praying for it not to be true.
That or they are waiting for some well known Christian to say 'anything' and call it a good enough argument to not be alarmed, move the goal post or keep the goal post where it is for many 'new creationists' (also known as theistic evolutionists [e.g. Christian, geneticist Francis Collins] but I'm with biologist Larry Moran on his use of the term 'new creationists' on his blog 'SandWalk'). I was waiting for a Christian to say 'Well, this doesn't prove that life can form naturally. All they did was swap the DNA of one already existing single cellular organism with manufactured DNA.' I'd argue that this feat still represents a significant step from the 'Miller-Urey experiments'. I, as theists should be as well, am curious as to if the individual strands of DNA that were used to manufacture the 'artificial life' were created by by an artificial process or simply stolen from other single celled organisms.
