First artificial life 'within months'

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Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacterium into another.

In a development that has triggered unease and excitement in equal measure, scientists in the US took the whole genetic makeup - or genome - of a bacterial cell and transplanted it into a closely related species. This then began to grow and multiply in the lab, turning into the first species in the process.

If that experiment worked, it would mark the creation of a synthetic lifeform.

Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/28/nlife128.xml)

Incredible!

[xrapidx]

Cool... the end is near... I've been waiting all my life for this moment :P

[Alan]

Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/28/nlife128.xml)

Incredible!

Very much so. Yet also chilling

[NoADSLyet]

Now how is the Darwinists going to explain all this? "There was no such thing as creation" only evolution. Haha.

[Telkomisaloser]

Hmmmmmmmm Telkomisaloser2 :D:D:D

[Claymore]

Now how is the Darwinists going to explain all this? "There was no such thing as creation" only evolution. Haha.

What are you trying to say?

[Lord Anubis]

McDonlads 2050 food court..on the StarShip DoC.............

> I'll have Bacon 'n eggs combo please

> Sir will that be with cheese, with peppers, on a bun, with all the fixin's?

> Yes

> Here you go

> Jissis that was quick!

> No problem sir .. we use this new device called a "replicator"..here enjoy your ration

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[dablakmark8]

gawd damn,what will the future hold now?

[lsuacner]

I once heard a joke I liked, leading scientist from the future, challenge God to create life, God goes first, picks up dust from the ground and makes a perfect person, the scientist tries to pick up some dust to perform the same feat, God stops them, and says "make your own dust".

[GavinMannion]

let's try this again...


Now how is the Darwinists going to explain all this? "There was no such thing as creation" only evolution. Haha.

I don't think it makes a blind bit of difference to the Darwanian theory.

It's not like evolutionists believe nothing can be created, it's just that we don't believe everything was created the way it was now... or anywhere close to it. We are the most intelligent beings to ever exist on this planet, just because we can start creating things doesn't change a thing


I once heard a joke I liked, leading scientist from the future, challenge God to create life, God goes first, picks up dust from the ground and makes a perfect person, the scientist tries to pick up some dust to perform the same feat, God stops them, and says "make your own dust".

lol that's classic

[Geriatrix]

It's not like evolutionists believe nothing can be created, it's just that we don't believe everything was created the way it was now... or anywhere close to it. We are the most intelligent beings to ever exist on this planet, just because we can start creating things doesn't change a thing

Yup, who says the idea of evolution is limited to physical bodies? Artificial Intelligence can simply result from human intelligence.

[Syndyre]

Impressive technology, amazing really. :)

[ldmelsa]

Yup, who says the idea of evolution is limited to physical bodies? Artificial Intelligence can simply result from human intelligence.

Yep. Artificial intelligence inside a computer. Wouldn't that be a universe inside our universe?


Think about it. :cool:

[VanZan]

I once heard a joke I liked, leading scientist from the future, challenge God to create life, God goes first, picks up dust from the ground and makes a perfect person, the scientist tries to pick up some dust to perform the same feat, God stops them, and says "make your own dust".

@ Isuacner - Spot on!

If someone can take the basic elements (from the periodic table) and have a process that can create a living cell from that without using anything from an existing cell, I would agree to qualifying "creating artificial life" but this is transplanting DNA. A significant achievement but not at the creation level yet IMO.

[Pr⊕phet]

cool. we going to have artificial gods as well ?