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Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mad-science dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute are potentially one step closer to creating life. In an experiment they recently created enzymes that can replicate and evolve. 'It kind of blew me away,' said team member Tracey Lincoln of the Scripps Research Institute, who is working on her Ph.D. 'What we have is non-living, but we've been able to show that it has some life-like properties, and that was extremely interesting.'"

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  1. ultimate proof of materialism? by peter303 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The ultimate proof of not needing a deity or special substance for life (or mind too) would be able to construct it out of raw ingredients. I 99% believe this possible.

  2. And where...and where...and where... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...is your God now!??!?!?!

    Researcher's hands? Test tubes?

    1. Re:And where...and where...and where... by peektwice · · Score: 0, Troll

      Why is the belief in a higher power any more or less "religious" than the belief in a big bang? Big bang theorists have a belief, or faith if you will, in a theory forwards the notion that EVERYTHING came from a single infinitely massive object that exploded from nothing and caused everything to just "be". Where did the infinitely massive object come from? Does your faith in science tell you that it was just always there?

      This reminds me of a joke. A scientist speaking to God says "Look God, I've created life." God said "How did you do that?" The scientist said "Same as you. I created life from dirt." God said "Show Me." The scientist picked up a handful of dirt and began to place it in a test tube. God said "Start with your own dirt."

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  3. Re:Bots... by MindlessAutomata · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, here on Earth we call these kinds of robots "Christians".

  4. But the real question we want answered by Xaoswolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    When will they grow something we can have sex with?

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