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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/20/2004 : 07:00:41
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4104483.stm
Long road but we'll get there.
Wait! Im having a PSIexperience.... I see... I see... Monotheists claiming gods helped the scientist make artifical life.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/20/2004 : 07:48:36 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4104483.stm
Long road but we'll get there.
Wait! Im having a PSIexperience.... I see... I see... Monotheists claiming gods helped the scientist make artifical life.
Very interesting, although we don't have abiogenesis yet. Arguably, the polio virus might come close.
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Two years ago, another team showed that polio viruses could assemble themselves from off-the-shelf chemical components mixed in a test-tube.
And several chemists are exploring the kinds of chemical reactions that may have preceded life.
Albert Libchaber's hope is to build up towards a minimal synthetic organism, with a designed cell wall, and a mixture of gene circuits that would let it maintain itself like a living cell.
Actually, the YEC crowd will probably ignore it until it becomes glaringly obvious to the public. For example, there has been another hominid species found, other than the 'Hobbit,' and AiG runs this pap:
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The Times they are not a-changin'1
December 20, 2004
The US newspaper The New York Times has not had a recent history of portraying Bible-believers in a fair light. In the wake of the presidential election, for example, the Times has given many column inches to its writers to lament America's “cultural divide” (often portraying it as “the Christians vs. all the others”) which the election supposedly exposed, as evangelical Christians helped re-elect President George W. Bush.
As we reported a few weeks ago on this website (see Evolution, the election and the “enlightened”), even its guest columnists, like well-known historian Garry Wills, have sometimes been shrill in expressing their concern over the apparent clout of the evangelical voting bloc. Wills was shocked to learn, for example, that there are now more Americans who believe in the Virgin Birth than they do Darwin's evolutionary belief system. He is deeply concerned that this “unenlightened” group now has such an influence on US society and might impose its biblical views on it.
But, as dull and as silly as it is, I will continue to monitor the site. Once in a while, they are amusing, as is ICR.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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