For the brainy types: hmmm....

[NewGuy]

Science on verge of new `Creation'

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...ar28,0,4395528.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

Intellectual debate anyone?

One of the tricks they learned is how to use the remarkable properties of clay, thought to have been abundant on the early Earth. Clay has natural catalytic properties--it speeds up the assembly of lipid membranes a hundredfold, for example, and also hastens the assembly of genetic material called ribonucleic acid.

The two researchers' findings indicate that critical chemicals can spontaneously be brought together to form membranes and genes that are essential for life. They have succeeded in creating cell-like containers that have incorporated laboratory-made RNA.

Key ingredient

Rasmussen of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Liaohai Chen of Argonne National Laboratory believe they have a good chance of making an artificial cell by using a slightly different version of DNA called polypeptide nucleic acid.

Unlimited variations of PNA can easily be made. They love to stick to the surface of membranes where they can suck up nutrients and hopefully churn out all kinds of novel chemicals, including more cell membrane lipids.

"We have all the pieces, and we have demonstrated that our metabolism can produce the container molecules," Chen said. The protocells that assemble are 10 million times smaller than a bacterium, he said.

The idea is to get all the parts working together so that the artificial cells would not only make daughter cells, but would also be able to manufacture custom-made chemicals now beyond the reach of engineers, such as self-repairing materials.

"Once we have self-reproducing entities that can be programmed, you can do all kinds of useful things," Rasmussen said. "You don't need to build the useful molecules--you can actually have them self-reproduce--you can grow them."

And it wouldn't be complete without:

The Bible:

Genesis 2:7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Thoughts?

 

[Joz]

Originally posted by NewGuy
Science on verge of new `Creation'

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...ar28,0,4395528.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

Intellectual debate anyone?



And it wouldn't be complete without:

The Bible:

Genesis 2:7

Thoughts?

I agree with your Bible quote. They will never be able to create life. They are using what is already in existence.

 

[NewGuy]

Originally posted by Joz
I agree with your Bible quote. They will never be able to create life. They are using what is already in existence.

I was looking at it as they are actually PROVING the quote in the long run.

 

[William Joyce]

Here's a stumper:

Evolution supports the racialist position.

The liberals who hate Jesus but love the blackies all choke on that one. So do the conservatives who all love Jesus but aren't so sure about blackie.

Ha ha ha!

I love to see the categories smashed up.

 

[NewGuy]

Originally posted by William Joyce
Here's a stumper:

Evolution supports the racialist position.

Sorry, but I don't think you are ready for that debate yet. Suffice it to say you have just proven your own position invalid.

The liberals who hate Jesus but love the blackies all choke on that one.

That is because the standard liberal way of thinking is illogical in the first place which is another discussion that I don't think you have too much info on. When you can define the theory behind the workings of what the Communist Manifesto represents, explain Compassionate Capitalism, and show which position economics is supported best by and yet ADDS morality to society by its very nature instead of DRAINING it, THEN we will go further with this.

So do the conservatives who all love Jesus but aren't so sure about blackie.

Which are typically racists, or uneducated Christians mostly from the southern US region where people like you feed them this stuff.

Ha ha ha!

I love to see the categories smashed up.

-You claim you are a lawyer?