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

AlmostAtheist

It's inevitable that someday someone will manage to bring all the right chemicals together, heat them just right, shake them just so, and it will result in the creation of life. It's going to happen. (Or at least for the sake of argument, let us say that it will happen.)

Creationists often say, "No one has ever been able to create life from non-life." So when it finally happens, what then? What will they say?

If you are a creationist, would it have any effect on you that a new life form was created in a laboratory from non-living matter?

Dave

ozziepost

But Dave, where'd the chemicals come from? Surely creation is making something from nothing, and since we live in a material world, it's not going to happen. Is it?

Satanus

For me, it goes along w my pantheist type theory: all matter, from human down through the animal, plant, microbe, down into rocks and things, all has the 'divine essence', if i can use that term. It is thought that mineral matter is dead. For me, it will be interesting to see if science continues to see it that way. A yr or two ago, scientists found some particles smaller than they knew about previously. They were arguing if these things were actually alive or not. See where this is going? Anyhow, it won't surprise me if they 'create' life.

S

Midget-Sasquatch

They'll focus on how just the right chemicals and conditions were brought together and setup in that experiment, and how all that forethougt supports Intelligent Design theory. And right after giving that rebuttal they'll jubilantly say "neener neener neener"

Crumpet

It will affect me deeply.

Firstly I shall have a clone made of myself, second I will introduce her to my boyfriends, third I we shall live happily ever after...

Mary

It's inevitable that someday someone will manage to bring all the right chemicals together, heat them just right, shake them just so, and it will result in the creation of life. It's going to happen. (Or at least for the sake of argument, let us say that it will happen.) Creationists often say, "No one has ever been able to create life from non-life." So when it finally happens, what then? What will they say?

It would just prove to me that life came about under controlled, specific conditions with intelligence guiding it, not by a random accident.

Carmel

Wife and I have already done that five times and I've a "science degree"!

mr science

nicolaou

Creationists will, once again, manage to use this as 'proof'. They will equate the scientists with God. They will say that the life did not arise by itself but was created by a higher intelligence. They will say that men have simply managed to mimic on a tiny level what God has accomplished on a universal scale.

And the dance will continue.....

AlmostAtheist

But Dave, where'd the chemicals come from? Surely creation is making something from nothing, and since we live in a material world, it's not going to happen. Is it?

I think Ozzie's answer is the most likely one. God will move from the "creator of life" to the "creator of the stuff of life". When they manage to congeal energy into matter, then he'll be the "creator of energy". Then....? Dave

jeanniebeanz

And right after giving that rebuttal they'll jubilantly say "neener neener neener"

hahahaha....<snif> very funny...

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

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