It's about the complexity of the task involved. You'd assume concert pianists to typically be literate, but I doubt another pianist could play a Scriabin etude off of a text message from Horowitz.
If the scientists have now created a bacterium, then of course the logical progression, drived by the thirst for knowledge, is to create more and more complex organisms, culminating in creating humans. Now, at this moment, the Church can say things like 'Only humans have a soul, so this doesn't really matter' but what is going to happen when a human being is CREATED not by a mother and father but by a scientist in a lab? I will bet ya, dollars to donuts, that the Church is gonna raise holy hell (pun intended:).
On another (lighter?) note, someone mentioned that the Bible states that the Antichrist will 'be born not of God or flesh.' Next, take into consideration that AFAIK the pagan religion, and also Nostradamus, predicted the end of the world would come in 1999. The antichrist is closely tied in with the Apocalypse. Thus, perhaps one of these bacteria will be the start of a killer epidemic that wipes everyone out, ala Outbreak?
Ah, but this could be taken a step further, into the propaganda/government conspiracy stage. Say a missile did go off. The government says 'It was a Y2K bug we missed.' Was it? Or was it deliberate?
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It's about the complexity of the task involved. You'd assume concert pianists to typically be literate, but I doubt another pianist could play a Scriabin etude off of a text message from Horowitz.
Oh, man, just imagine a Beowulf cluster of those Beowulf clusters...
hee hee.
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If the scientists have now created a bacterium, then of course the logical progression, drived by the thirst for knowledge, is to create more and more complex organisms, culminating in creating humans. Now, at this moment, the Church can say things like 'Only humans have a soul, so this doesn't really matter' but what is going to happen when a human being is CREATED not by a mother and father but by a scientist in a lab? I will bet ya, dollars to donuts, that the Church is gonna raise holy hell (pun intended :).
On another (lighter?) note, someone mentioned that the Bible states that the Antichrist will 'be born not of God or flesh.' Next, take into consideration that AFAIK the pagan religion, and also Nostradamus, predicted the end of the world would come in 1999. The antichrist is closely tied in with the Apocalypse. Thus, perhaps one of these bacteria will be the start of a killer epidemic that wipes everyone out, ala Outbreak?
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Jeremy Tout
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Ah, but this could be taken a step further, into the propaganda/government conspiracy stage. Say a missile did go off. The government says 'It was a Y2K bug we missed.' Was it? Or was it deliberate?
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Jeremy Tout
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Just a guess here guys, but I believe what he meant was 'Won't Linus be pissed."
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