artificial life!!! (well almost)

[coops]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html

An interesting article on efforts to recreate the first proto-cells. Obviously this is only one possible path to the origins of life and is not claimed to be THE way it happened but very interesting none the less.

Nice to see life going full circle: we all started as fatty blobs and are now returning to our primordial state

I wonder what the creationists will say when and if these people succeed in showing life from non-life is possible.

 

[Viper Daimao]

Nice to see life going full circle: we all started as fatty blobs and are now returning to our primordial state

please don't remind me of that star trek voyager episode.

but very cool nonetheless

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

I wonder what the creationists will say when and if these people succeed in showing life from non-life is possible.

No need to wonder, they already have an answer ready. They'll say it's an example of intelligent design because the experiment was performed by humans. And it won't matter how much the conditions of the experiment might resemble a natural event.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Well, even idiots are right on occasion.

 

[KingMerv00]

Well, even idiots are right on occasion.

Are you referring to RY's post? If so, the idiots wouldn't be right then.