(January 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm)bob96 Wrote: It's sounds like you think scientists have already created life in a test tube!
That's not at all what it sounds like.
(January 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm)bob96 Wrote: Show me a reference to a scientist creating a self-replicating molecule. You can't.
He or she didn't say that he or she could, so you seem to be switching the subject for some reason.
(January 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm)bob96 Wrote: From Quanta Magazine:
Gerald Joyce was able to build RNA out of right-handed building blocks, as others had done before him. But when he added in left-handed molecules, mimicking the conditions on the early Earth, everything came to a halt. “Our paper said if you have [both] forms in the same place at the same time, you can’t even get started,” Joyce said.
That's kind of random. What do you think it proves?
(January 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm)bob96 Wrote: Jack Szostak, a biochemist at Harvard University and one of Joyce’s collaborators, is excited by the findings, particularly because the ribozyme is so much more flexible than earlier versions. But, he said, “I am skeptical that life began in this way.” Szostak argues that this scenario would require both left-handed and right-handed RNA enzymes to have emerged at the same time and in the same place, which would be highly unlikely.
It sounds like what they are saying is that they are not on the right track. Are you claiming this means there is no right track?
(January 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm)bob96 Wrote: The necessary building blocks of life can self assemble in the laboratory, but only under the strict experimental conditions designed by the scientist. This just shows that it takes an intelligent designer to create life.
You seem to be trying to have it both ways by complaining that known intelligent designers can't create life.
Let's face it, we can't create life yet, but that doesn't mean we won't ever; but if we do, it may still not prove how life actually started over 3.5 billion years ago. It would only be proof of concept that the supernatural isn't needed. The way (or ways) we come up with may be more or less intelligent-seeming than what a billion years of organic chemistry can do. And there's always the possibility that we'll never be able to replicate any origin of life, whether the one that actually happened or otherwise, but it's way too early to be calling it quits.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.