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Atheists? Believers?

Here's an interesting poser:

One day a scientist set out to prove that an intelligent creator was not necessary

and that life could be created from 'lifeless' chemicals. And after many failures, finally succeeded in creating life and disproving his own theory.

Any thoughts?

Update:

I know it's not really a question, I would just like to hear your responses.

Thank-You.

Update 2:

Nice Trish, but I think the experiment resulted in some very basic amino acid fragments - not even close to 'Living'

Update 3:

Nomad. Nice. but then, the creator of the creator would need a creator and that creator would need a creator - etc., etc, etc.

Update 4:

sgxbroker, WOW! - way over my head. But it's nice to some interesting and imaginative people comment on my thoughts. It reminds me that I'm not nearly as smart as I think I am . ;)

Update 5:

Thanks everyone for your participation.

Its great to have a forum for these random ideas - If only to show how big a fool I am.

But I hope you all got something from this posting. Many thanks to all.

For those who didn't seem to understand - the Scientist was trying to prove you didn't need an 'Intelligent' creator to make life and by succeeding he DISPROVED this, because HE was the intelligence that created the life.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    That reminds me of a joke.

    There's an atheist biologist and he's walking along in a forest. He is looking at all the trees and shrubs and birds and other forest life. He stops and he calls out angrily to God "You see? We don't need you! You don't exist! I can reproduce everything I see here in my lab. You're useless!"

    And the clouds part, and the voice of God comes down and says, "Oh really? Okay, make a man out of a clump of dirt."

    The atheist smiles and says, "You're on! I can do that!" He stoops down and grabs up a handful of dirt and God replies: "Oh no, no, go get your OWN dirt."

  • 1 decade ago

    Let's expand your story,

    One day a scientist from the G level of dimensional universe realm set out to prove that an intelligent creator was not necessary and that life could be created from 'lifeless' bright and dark matter particles. And after many failures, finally succeeded in creating life only in the (G-1) level of dimensional universe realm and thus disproving his own theory.

    As (G-1) realm of intellient beings were created, the scientist of the (G-1) realm also set out to prove that an intelligent creator was not ..... And after many failures, .... succeeded in creating life only in the (G-2) level of dimensional universe and thus disproving his own thoey.

    So.. the story continue till infinity of (G-infinity) level thus begin the quest from (-infinity ) till (+ infinity) again and again for infinite permutations like cicular loops....

  • 1 decade ago

    It doesn't make sense to me.

    If it took a scientist (intelligent creator) to create life from chemicals he would "prove" his theory since it can't happen by chance.

  • 1 decade ago

    Logical fallacy.

    The scientist disproved nothing of the kind.

    The scientist would have demonstrated *one* way to create life. The experimentation would have revealed an awful lot about the steps necessary, and as to whether they could have occured naturally, over millions of years, without deliberate intervention.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Last Ent wife really drove the point home...In my view no man can create life you only give what you've got....what you've got you were given.Your life is not from your parents nor their life from their parents.If you go back far enough life is not a component you just make or a raw material in the Amazon.

    He can never prove himself wrong that way...even human cloning,surrogate motherhood in IVF is no grand breakthrough.Here man is simply working with raw materials that already exist and work on their own accord thus denying him the opportunity to say that he created life

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well that's how science works.

    The scientist was a poor scientist, in that he was not objective.

    I dare say he would have disproven God far sooner, had he simply used science without the politic.

    This is what's going to happen.

    I believe we will see the end of Christianity before 2012 - because people will finally see that it's claims are impossible, both historic and scientific.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Did the scientist build the organism from a blueprint, from the ground up? That wouldn't disprove his theory, but it wouldn't confirm it either.

    Or, did the scientist replicate environmental conditions similar to primordial Earth and wait for chemical and electric interactions to form complex molecules on their own? That *would* prove his theory correct.

  • 1 decade ago

    I am searching now to prove for myself if God exist or not!

    I think this big world with lots of planet, lots of people and ... need a big creator... a kind creator and controller!

    I'm searching but I think existence of God is necessary!

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    1 decade ago

    The photosensitizing activity of chlorophyll a in the phosphatide-protein coacervate system were the starting point of life forms in our primordial oceans.

    It took millions of years, not a lab test. If he disproved his own theory, then his theory was not working.

    The matter of fact stands still tho.

    We ARE here and our life did not started by multiplying of Adam and Eve.

  • 1 decade ago

    I thought they did that way back in the 70s? You know - long-chain molecules from chemicals charged with static (to approximate lightning) in a Florence flask???

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The mere fact that you can't clearly answer rather viruses are alive or not points out that life isn't a magical quality.

    And it would only disprove his theory IF there was no way that it could happen naturally.

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