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Synthetic Biology, a relatively new field, is seeking to find out what happened to a bunch of chemicals to make them capable of supporting a metabolism, replicating, and evolution. A Florida lab is showing some of the most promising advancements in this direction with their AEGIS (Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System) experiment. "AEGIS is not self-sustaining, at least not yet, and with 12 DNA building blocks -- as opposed to the usual four -- there's little chance it will be confused with natural life. Still, Benner is encouraged by the results. 'It's evolving. It's doing what we designed it to do,' said Benner, a biochemist with the Gainesville, Fla.-based Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution. In addition to providing an example of how alien life might be cobbled together, synthetic biology has a broad array of uses on the home front."
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let's hope they don't make an AEGIS that's black. the 4 DNA building blocks have given us enough rap "music" and slang and welfare mamas and affirmative action.
Only if you're trying to make the argument that humans guided the evolution of humans. It's about as logical an argument as I've ever heard from the ID crowd, but it's still pretty stupid.
If you weren't so quick to criticize people who oppose your views you would have put a little more thought into your answer. This experiment is the same thing as intelligent design. An entity of a higher power (not of the same power as the creation) creates an organism of some capacity then lets evolution take over. AEGIS never said it had to be human, just a living organism, or in this case they start out with some chemicals.
First, I don't believe in intelligent design per se because that is just candy-coating it for the elitists who talk down to people who have dissenting opinions. I prefer creationism over evolution not the least of which because there are so many assumptions made with evolution. To add to the list of absurdities in support of evolution we have from Thursday on MSNBC.com an article about a new footprint discovered which is supposed to be human. A photograph is on the webpage and when I looked at it I was reminded of what Harrison Ford says to the "leader" of the Temple of Doom near the end of the movie: "You've got one vivid imagination".
Second, is it even correct to ask how the chemicals enabled evolution? Why not go so far out on a limb that it breaks under our (mankind) massive ego and assume that evolution had to create the chemicals first?
Third, I hate when people say something is working as designed but describe the process as evolving. Evolution from a biological perspective does not include any design whatsoever so a scientist designing chemicals to self-replicate is not evolution; it does not evolve. As soon as a higher power (man, God) is involved evolution no longer is applicable. Applying the term "evolving" to an IT system does not instill confidence in me because the connotation is no design was involved in the creation of the IT system.
By the way, good job of not coming off as elitist.
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Wow, so a few days ago it was the Microsoft shills with mod points, now it's the Creationists. Good grief, how do such intellectual midgets manage to get mod points?
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