BaalChatzaf Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Craig Venter and his team have gone farther than any other group to create synthetic life. Venter's techniques use living tissue as a container or carrier, but the product is a genuine replicating genome whose parts are from no living thing. Please read http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/synthetic-microbe-lives-less-500-genes and enjoy this TED video Venter has not quite reached the point where he can make replicators in an environment with no living parts but he appears to be getting there. His work and people who base their work on Venter's may have a pretty good chance of accomplishing making life from totally non living stuff in a non-living matrix. If that happens will we have the answer to how life might have rise on this planet. Answer: No. Why? Because life arose on this planet over 3.5 billion years ago under conditions that are no longer reproducable. We could not say processes such as Venter has arranged happen spontaneously. What we will have is a -possible- explanation of how life might have come from non-life. At that point we could definitely say living stuff came from non-living stuff. Off course this happens when human beings make what happens happen. But isn't this what God did In The Beginning? We probably will never get an answer to the question did life arise from non-line by purely natural non-consciously guided processes. To answer that affirmatively one would have to be around exactly when such a happening occurred. This is highly unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 The planet may have been seeded--somehow--with life, to begin with, by an unknowable "God" who knows not our what not and may even no longer exist. --Brant could the end and the beginning be the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 What is the morality of Panspermia, or directed seeding of life throughout the universe? If the seeds only go to uninhabited planets I would be for it, but not for contaminating an inhabited planet. We could be possibly sending disease to them. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share Posted June 6, 2017 5 hours ago, Peter said: What is the morality of Panspermia, or directed seeding of life throughout the universe? If the seeds only go to uninhabited planets I would be for it, but not for contaminating an inhabited planet. We could be possibly sending disease to them. Peter U.S. space probes that make planet fall are carefully scrubbed of microbes prior to launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 I think a synthetic life form would have a tough and short life, because it has not been through 4 billion years of assault and evolution from other life forms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted June 7, 2017 Author Share Posted June 7, 2017 9 hours ago, Peter said: I think a synthetic life form would have a tough and short life, because it has not been through 4 billion years of assault and evolution from other life forms. Some of Venters work might give us an idea of how life -originate-. Life sustains itself by adaptation. That is where evolution comes in. Darwin hypothesized how different species came to be. He never addressed the problem of how life originated in the first place. The closest he came to that was to suppose that life started in a shallow warm body of water filled with goo. He never presented a hypothesize on how life arose. He only addressed the problem of how life changes in response to the environment. In that regard Darwin saw a connection between the scarcity of food created by rapid population increase and the "struggle for life" among the contenders for scarce resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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