What will you believe if science recreates the beginings of life?

Well true in some ways I did overstate the case. How about if I rephrase it as that intelligent beings can create life.

Christianity has believed that intelligent beings can create life? Really?

At one point in the past you would be facing an inquisition over this idea.

Christianity has believed in witches, gobblins and evil supernatural possessions (still does) and more hooey than I can shake a broom at.

They think that God is pretty intelligent, and that he created stuff.

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Why would they think that? Have any of them ever met this God guy?

Just following your reasoning.

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Care, no kidding, if that's the case then I'm a brillliant scientist! Me, King of the Assumers! Fair dinkum if jumping to conclusions was a sport I'd be World Champ!

But I think it starts, following Aristotle, with observation, formation of hypothesis and then testing the hypothesis. That's all I know without googling like buggery!

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Viruses are interesting little buggers aren't they? Life, but a strange form of life.

Good read here:

http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.c...as-we-know-it/

More at link and worth a read.

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too fukin' funny...

Can you prove that He didn't start it all?

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Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

There is no evidence for abiogenesis, at least not yet.

There is more than a century of scientific research to back up the theory of evolution.

How anyone can pretend to refute evolution in an internet forum boggles the mind.

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Viruses have given us a LOT of proof for everything from evolution, much of our studies on the subject came from them because their life cycles are so short a few years to us is a million to them. Also all life is based on viruses, our own cells are viruses in many ways. Some go through evolution steps each generation, like the flu and cold viruses. Perhaps god is just a virus?

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It won't change beliefs at all. The article is about a natural process recreated by man thus it affirms those who see life as natural and those who see life as created by intelligence.

You are confusing "Christianity" with certain sects and politicially motivated movements within the church, who were working in conjunction with the legal system and at the behest of the judicial system to eradicate certain problematic populations.

Which is the problem of allowing church and state to mingle, of course. True Christians recognize that and are the most staunch defenders of separation of church and state.

Christians do, however, believe in demons and possession....but it's when the government gets involved that you have penalties put into action. The Salem Witch Trials were a result of the JUDICIAL system condemning women (a whole 13? OH MY GOD) for allegedly religious reasons. And that happened under BRITISH rule.

The INQUISITION was an unholy alliance between the Catholic church and certain governments to establish one state religion.

It's old news, it's more likely to happen with the fanatics who want to abolish all religion and all referrals to religion in public than it is otherwise these days. You nuts are the ones who want to ostracize, punish, and eliminate people based upon their religion. Not us.

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I'm not refuting evolution. I'm refuting the theory that you can take a one cell animal, and it will evolve into a lizard.

Of course animals evolve. People are taller than they used to be...or at least some of us are. We live longer. That's evolution. Horses have developed into widely divergent breeds..that's evolution.

What I say can't happen, and nobody has every proven differently, is that a man can evolve from an APE, or an ape can evolve from a rodent.

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If life can only be the product of intelligence and we are created in gods image then god must be life and therefore have an intelligent creator, correct? So he couldn't have started it all since his weakness of being life means he could not be the beginning since he, like us, is a product of another beings intelligene.

Now the question being begged is whether gods god is life. If so, then gods god would also need a god and therefore also not be the beginning. So who started it all since it wasn't god...nature? And, of course, if nature could create god then why couldn't it create us...