http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,20967,1014147,00.html
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Flipping though slides thick with chemical equations, Chen explains how Rasmussen’s team of chemists and physicists, who are gathered together here for the first time, will build their bug. *They aren’t going to simply transform an existing organism by tweaking its DNA. No, Chen explains, they’re going to create their being from scratch, literally breathing life into a beaker full of inanimate molecules.* It is a Frankensteinian vision—though, granted, one that will unfold on the nano scale. The team’s “protocell” will be thousands of times as small as a typical bacterium and far more primitive. But if all goes as planned, it will possess the defining characteristics of life: It will spawn offspring, generate its own energy, even evolve. Left unspoken was this: If Rasmussen, who first started contemplating protocells seven years ago, and his colleagues succeed, they will have crossed a threshold, bestowing on humankind powers that now belong exclusively to nature (or to God, depending on your beliefs). "
*Pikasuomennos*: "He eivät aio vain muokata olemassaolevia organismeja DNA:n avulla, vaan luoda hengittävän, elävän olennon elottomista molekyyleistä"
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http://www.book-of-thoth.com/article1093.html
"You might think Norman Packard is playing God. Or you might see him as the ultimate entrepreneur. As founder and CEO of Venice-based company ProtoLife, Packard is one of the leaders of an ambitious project that has in its sights the lofty goal of life itself. His team is attempting what no one else has done before: *to create a new form of living being from non-living chemicals in the lab.*
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http://atheism.about.com/b/a/075868.htm
"There are many who still believe that there is some irreducible, non-mechanical essence that separates life from non-life. This may be a soul of some sort or it might not, but whatever it is there may be some difficulty in maintaining belief in such a thing when humans are creating life from scratch. This will show that life doesn't need supernatural or mysterious origins to exist - and that may post problems for people with especially narrow and rigid religious views. "
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http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg62634.html
SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists will soon be able to create viruses that never existed before
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Flipping though slides thick with chemical equations, Chen explains how Rasmussen’s team of chemists and physicists, who are gathered together here for the first time, will build their bug. *They aren’t going to simply transform an existing organism by tweaking its DNA. No, Chen explains, they’re going to create their being from scratch, literally breathing life into a beaker full of inanimate molecules.* It is a Frankensteinian vision—though, granted, one that will unfold on the nano scale. The team’s “protocell” will be thousands of times as small as a typical bacterium and far more primitive. But if all goes as planned, it will possess the defining characteristics of life: It will spawn offspring, generate its own energy, even evolve. Left unspoken was this: If Rasmussen, who first started contemplating protocells seven years ago, and his colleagues succeed, they will have crossed a threshold, bestowing on humankind powers that now belong exclusively to nature (or to God, depending on your beliefs). "
*Pikasuomennos*: "He eivät aio vain muokata olemassaolevia organismeja DNA:n avulla, vaan luoda hengittävän, elävän olennon elottomista molekyyleistä"
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http://www.book-of-thoth.com/article1093.html
"You might think Norman Packard is playing God. Or you might see him as the ultimate entrepreneur. As founder and CEO of Venice-based company ProtoLife, Packard is one of the leaders of an ambitious project that has in its sights the lofty goal of life itself. His team is attempting what no one else has done before: *to create a new form of living being from non-living chemicals in the lab.*
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http://atheism.about.com/b/a/075868.htm
"There are many who still believe that there is some irreducible, non-mechanical essence that separates life from non-life. This may be a soul of some sort or it might not, but whatever it is there may be some difficulty in maintaining belief in such a thing when humans are creating life from scratch. This will show that life doesn't need supernatural or mysterious origins to exist - and that may post problems for people with especially narrow and rigid religious views. "
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http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg62634.html
SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists will soon be able to create viruses that never existed before
Vastaukset 2
Vanhimmat
You're god, we're all gods. But since we're all gods, there are no non-gods, and that makes all gods unnecessary because gods need people that believe in them and whom gods can punish and send to heaven and hell. Therefore there are no gods, no heaven, no hell. Simple as that.
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