RE: CNN Gets 'Synthetic Life' Right in the Headlines
May 26, 2010 at 10:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2010 at 10:05 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
(May 26, 2010 at 9:48 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Then by your own definition, nobody can ever create life from scratch, since everyone is a living organism, ergo your entire point is meaningless.
Perhaps a bit more thought should go into your posts next time. When they eventually do create a cell from scratch, I bet you'll be there complaining loudly that they used already-made chemicals and matter to do it. Just be a man and admit you simply made a semantic mistake.
The thing that separates life from non-life is genetic code; DNA, self-replication, etc. This is the part they created. Just because they used a natural cell doesn't mean that their work creating the actual "life" in that cell is any less valid.
I will not " you'll be there complaining loudly that they used already-made chemicals and matter to do it. " and my definition doesn't include the humans that are making the cell membrane and genome for the new life. Again, you are not being charitable, instead you're finding out ways to rule out my definition rather than seeing the obvious exception to my definition. so much for some guy that got accepted to cambridge. lol
