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Author Topic:   Scientists create life in a test tube
frank
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Message 1 of 23 (13416)
07-12-2002 12:11 PM


Hi to all, this is my first post and I wasn't sure what forum to put it in.
I found the following article on-line in the New York Times and thought it might generate some disussion:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/science/12POLI.html
Frank

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frank
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Message 5 of 23 (13429)
07-12-2002 5:45 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by gene90
07-12-2002 4:15 PM


Two reasons cited in the article are biowarfare and environmental cleanup. I seem to remember reading an article a few years back about the possible use of bacteria to breakdown oil spills.
I'm sure there could be many more. We have used micro-organisms in tasks like brewing beer and making cheese for a very long time, so the
development of custom "bugs" to enhance existing processes or create
new processes seems well worth looking into.
Frank

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frank
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Message 14 of 23 (13578)
07-15-2002 2:58 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by Tranquility Base
07-14-2002 10:27 PM


I disagree that this has nothing to do with the origin of life.
Assuming scientists do create life in the future, that would give us one more scenario of how things may have happened than we currently have.
Assuming that what is discovered in not the way life was created here, it still allows us a better understanding of how life may originate elsewhere in the universe.
Frank

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frank
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Message 17 of 23 (13653)
07-16-2002 5:07 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Tranquility Base
07-15-2002 9:24 PM


TB,
Good, then we are not completely at odds.
Thanks for the explanation. It has been 30 years since my last biology course and a lot has happened in the field since then. I am trying to bring myself up to date as time allows. I have found this site to be of help.
I can agree that creating a cell in a lab does not make evolution more or less likely, at least if one defines the debate of evolution to be one of what happens after life already exists.
I don't want to make any comment on God right now. Perhaps later in the Faith and Belief forum. "
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Frank

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