Again, adaptation does not explain how life began. Life must first exist before it can begin to adapt. Where did the first organisms come from?Originally Posted by Maniaco
As I said before, I do NOT believe that the Earth was created in 6 days. But I won't say it is impossible for that to happen.
BTW, your stupid little insults don't make you or your agruments sound more intelligent.
There is no point to argue with you. I could reply too all six sentences but there really is no point. I've been done with this thread, but unless you can post something I haven't already read there is no point to continue. So if you want to get deep into it, get your bible out and start marinating something that'll have enough intellect to match my own.
Im ready when you are, big shot.
I'm going with "life" began as a single-celled organism... millions of years ago, the chemistry was just right on earth, so that the building blocks of life (amino acids, nucleic acids, etc) were formed- eventually associating with each other in away that information was preserved and the organism could replicate... fast forward years and years and YEARS later, and more advanced organisms evolved, such as those that could use sunlight for energy.... fast forward more and primitive marine life evolves which eventually spreads on to land (some staying in the oceans)...
we would not be here if there was no water on our planet. Like in college chemistry- when you want a reaction to take place between two substances, you facilitate this by dissolving them in a solvent so the molecules can interact with each other freely. Over the span of millions of years, the same chemistry took place in the oceans of earth, eventually resulting in life.
to me, this seems more sound than creation in 6 days.
whats missing from the picture is the fact that we cannot "engineer" life in the lab. there is a certain essence that allows things to be alive- its the difference between a bundle of proteins with DNA and an actual living organism. who knows- i hope we get there.
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Not true, they're making artificial life in the lab from the first chromosome up. Totally artificial manmade organisms.
That's not completely true. Venter is not starting with raw nucleotides, he is starting with DNA strands which his team is combining. They've been working on it for years, and always saying that they are "almost there". It will be interesting if they get the strands to combine properly.
Also, they are using an already living bacterial cell for their project, so while it could possibly create a new DNA strand and technically a new species, that does not necessarily mean that they have created life itself. However, it is a very big and important step in the direction of such.
I am assuming that you are referring to this project, as it is the only one that I know of that has a legitimate chance of success - and you did not specify once by name.
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