RE: Evidence God Exists: Part II
May 23, 2010 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2010 at 10:06 am by Welsh cake.)
(May 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm)AngelThMan Wrote: As Craig Venter explains it, DNA is like software for living organisms. So in the same way that an artificial heart, or a synthetic body part can be built and incorporated into a living human being, it was only a matter of time before this software called genome could be constructed and incorporated into a living cell.Craig Venter was only using that as an analogy so people could understand how it works better.
AngelThMan Wrote:This has nothing to do with abiogenesis, or the experiments that have been conducted to prove it. So let's make something clear. A living cell has never been replicated from inanimate matter in a laboratory or elsewhere, and never will be.Its an advancement into understanding abiogenesis - a scientific breakthrough. That was a poor choice of words from you because that's exactly what Craig Venter and his team have accomplished with a man-made genome of a bacterium from scratch, it's a synthetic life form, which also replicates. To replicate (Verb) is "to make a copy (replica) of". Life by definition is also self-replicating. Within genetics replication (or cell division such as mitosis or meiosis) is the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division.
(May 21, 2010 at 8:27 pm)AngelThMan Wrote: It can only happen with God's input. Everyone's up in arms about it, but it's what I believe, sorry.Let me get this straight. You disregard this feat, a defining moment in biology, which has occupied 20 scientists for more than 10 years research at an estimated cost of $40m because you believe a God formed man from dust, and breathed into his nostrils the "breath of life" so he could become a living soul?
What the hell does that belief have anything to do with biological life as we know it to be? What does the "breath of life" or "living soul" even supposed to mean Angel? It’s asinine to the extreme.
AngelThMan Wrote:This would be very arrogant if to me this was just about some philosophy debate, or if the measurable standard here was only discussion etiquette. But it's way more than that. I was affirming my belief in God.Accept some responsibility young man. Even when I was a theist I recognised a belief in God does not give you a free pass to behave like an arrogant condensing prick around others.