That is pretty interesting about synthesizing DNA I will have to ask my wife about it tomorrow (she is a geneticist). I know that it fun to argue and everything but every once in a while I think that it is okay to agree with someone and I agree with you that a lot of people on this board are selling G-d or the possibility of G-d short (including atheists, evolutionists, agnostics, Non-practicing agnostics) but those that believe in God are among the worst offenders. I will be up front and say that I am a monotheist and I believe that the Bible is the Holy word of God and it is without error but I am also open-minded.
I am not threatened by people with beliefs that don't seem at first glance to coincide with the bible, such as the big bang. Maybe Genesis and the big bang explain the same event, that before there was time or a universe there was a void and then BANG God created the universe.
Another thing is the age of the earth, what does it matter how old we calculate the earth to be using science? It does not matter from a religious point of view because the bible (as far as I know) does not spell out how old the earth is.
And for the people who do not believe in God is it really that much of a stretch to think that there is something in the universe more intelligent than we are? Something that can control and manipulate and even change the laws that govern science, as we know it?
P.S. Just for fun and a little trivia can you from memory name the first organic chemical ever synthesized?
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