Once scientists DO create life, how will it affect you? (page 2)

gringojj

I can hear them already...

"Humans have never been able to create a COMPLEX life form therefore it must have been god".

One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had

come a long way and no longer needed God. They picked one scientist

to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked

up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you.

We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous

things, so why don't you just go on and get lost."

God listened patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist

was done talking, God said, "Very well! How about this? Let's have

a man making contest."

To which the man replied, "OK, great!"

But God added, "Now we're going to do this just like I did back in the

old days with Adam."

The scientist said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed

himself a handful of dirt.

God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no.

You go get your own dirt!"

Satanus

Bebu

Just remember who made god ... and can unmake him ...

S

tetrapod.sapien

IMO, the only way that scientists would be able to "create" life, would be to develop new framework for data transfer, similar and yet seperate from DNA or RNA. it can be chemically based, fine. there is no rule that the only gene transfer frameworks on earth be dna or rna based. in theory, i'd think it could work. we're already cloning organisms, which is "creating" life based in dna.

however, that said, i think computer scientists have already created life if ones definition of life is reduced to data transfer frameworks (dna in our case). digital organisms living in programs like AVIDA are already "alive" based on this defintion. i mean they are simple, sure. but do you consider bacteria life? if so, they you would do well to consider what defines "life" as life. without dna we would not exist, neither would bacteria. these digital organisms are simply living in a different environment from us (a linux cluster in most instances), and are using a different method for gene transfer. but it's working.

sure, they're subject to our whims. if we shut the computer off they die. but really now, are we really in much more control of our own survival?

this is my argument. burrow in at will. :)

TS

TD

I don't think I'll have to worry about that one, because I seriously doubt if man will ever create organic life. --Certainly not in my lifetime anyway.

I do agree with TS though that "life" has been modeled accurately enough to loosely be described as the "real thing." Of course by that general a definition, I think a lot of things are arguably "alive." Religion for example, could be described as "alive." (And a particularly nasty parasitic life form at that.....)

M.J.

I wonder the same about finding past or present evidence of life on Mars.

TopHat

They might be able to create robot life with human intelligence...anyone here know of the company called Irobot? http://irobot.com/ stock symbol is IRBT

Once scientists DO create life, how will it affect you?

gringojj

bebu

Satanus

tetrapod.sapien

TD

M.J.

TopHat

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