Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Lord Vyce) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:21:30 GMT

Crawl and 1OOO wrote:
There's a famous picture of a carved microscopic bull I've seen in many independent sources, and simply Google image searching "microscopic bull" turns it up (twice on the first page of results), but the amoeba picture is much better than that.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:39:43 GMT

More interesting biology.

To summarize that article, when amoeba live on a pile of crap, or whatever, and it loses its sustaining nutrients, the amoeba can come together to form a macroscopic stem with a ball on the end, and then the wind can blow the ball to a fresher food source.

From an evolutionary perspective, this could illustrate how or why some single cell...

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:42:59 GMT

Well, now it's pretty much become the "reference as many community in-jokes as you can" topic. I count at least three, and I still don't quite fully understand the Amoeba Boys thing, despite having watched an episode on YouTube.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Amagons brother) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:00:29 GMT

That is very likely the recipe for world peace.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (sethrashnoo) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:40:08 GMT

Amagons brother wrote:
With Pokemon hentai.

Yeah. We need a whole lot less religion and a whole lot more of those Sexy Charmanders.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (James FP) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:46:31 GMT

bjstrykes wrote:

sethrashnoo wrote:
Someday Pokemon will be real. You just wait and see.

More like the Amoeba Boys. Oh wait... I think they're already real.

Yeah. My old board proved that one.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:33:50 GMT

Pokemon H as in....?

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Amagons brother) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:58:19 GMT

With Pokemon hentai.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:57:56 GMT

pray tell, tweetster, how wouldst thee "man up" this foul miscreation?

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (bjstrykes) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:49:54 GMT

sethrashnoo wrote:
Someday Pokemon will be real. You just wait and see.

More like the Amoeba Boys. Oh wait... I think they're already real.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:59:56 GMT

Good job, you guys ruined a cool topic. Again.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Amagons brother) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:47:06 GMT

The very definition of supernatural--meaning outside of nature--dictates that natural evidence will not support it. The only concept in logic that gives evidence to the existence of anything supernatural is the concept of a point of origin. If the universe or time is finite in any way, a point of origin must exist for it. For matter to be brought into existence from inexistence demands that natural law be contradicted. I know that current studies into dark matter seek to answer these...

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (MaskedSheik) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:41:24 GMT

Even if it is highly unlikely for the basic ingredients of life to form "by themselves" under those conditions, there's an infinity of time during as well; a lot of time to wait for something unlikely. So though the chances of life developing is exceedingly low, surely it could happen at least once, in the entire expanse of space and time.

I'm not saying that that complexity demands a supernatural solution, but I'll happily say that it is...

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:35:22 GMT

No, seriously, there is no meaningful creationist thought. A federal judge in Kansas has ruled as much. The consensus in the biological community is nearly unanimous. It has nothing to do with being "condescending towards religion" -- you do not need to be a creationist just because you're religious. Like I said above, the Roman Catholic Church basically approves of (not that it's canon law, of course, but they don't oppose it) evolution. They are able to fit PROVEN...

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Amagons brother) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:40:30 GMT

Crawl and 1OOO wrote:
There is no "creationist thought", and scientists are under no obligation to "infringe" upon it.

What creationists say at any given time is based on what lies they feel they can get away with with that given audience. Or it can be based on what specific misunderstandings of evolutionary theory a given creationist has. Or gainsaying evolutionary theories while adding nothing...

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (honestgamer) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:17:15 GMT

I'm not sure how the "conditions that existed millions of years ago" got to be there, though. That's my point. Of course I don't oppose the notion of organisms evolving. I just can't wrap my mind around... existence, I guess.

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:21:41 GMT

The purpose of evolution isn't to explain where the whole universe came from. That's kind of outside of the scope of a biological theory (right now, anyway).

HOWEVER, if your question is just how life could have arisen on our primordial and lifeless Earth (never mind how the Earth and the rest of the universe got there), there are plausible theories about that.
What creationists say at any given time is based on what lies they feel they can get away with with that given audience. Or it can be based on what specific misunderstandings of evolutionary theory a given creationist has. Or gainsaying evolutionary theories while adding nothing of its own.

I recently saw a video on Youtube where some creationist was...

Re: Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (Amagons brother) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:25:29 GMT

Crawl and 1OOO wrote:

I'm not sure how much more it supports the idea of creating life from essentially non-life, as from a basic, simplistic standpoint its more akin to the modern idea of cloning, only rewriting an already developed cell as opposed to a stem cell.

I...

Scientist creates artificial life form.

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:08:00 GMT

It's cool, but humanity is so doomed now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299857,00.html

A scientist who built a synthetic chromosome from laboratory chemicals is expected to announce the creation of a new species, the first new artificial life form on Earth, British newspaper The Guardian reported Sunday.

The new...