> "Rufus" nospam.com>
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>>Although some components of life have been created in a lab,
>>life has yet to be created. I personally hope someone does
>>figure out how to create life in a lab. It will be the best
>>proof of a Divine Creator there is: Think of it - humans
>>will be proving that intelligence and design are required
>>to create life.
>>Rufus

>
> Oh RoofUS SpoofUS
>
> This is the most worthless and amusing attempt at pre-emptive
> creationist theological apologetics that I have ever come across...
>
> Anti-Evolutionists have spent the last 150 years telling us that
> "only God can create life". Now when you clearly see that
> some kind of life may well be invented in a lab you want to
> employ selective amnesia and say that this will prove that
> what you all said was impossible actually supports faith in
> creationism...
>
> Ha Ha Ha... See how the fundy loon TheoCon arguements are
> like the NeoCon arguements... "That we did not find WMD in
> Iraq proves that Saddam tricked us into thinking that they were
> there"...
>
> This is no better than the "god put fossils in the ground to test
> faith" nonsense. Can't you get some better arguments?
>
> What life in the lab will prove is that it is more likely life was
> assembled from molecular components by natural processes.
>
> Are you are so worried though that you have to stoop to such
> gross self-deception and convoluted theological gymnastics?
>
> The other strategies that are available to you are denial, "it is not
> really life", accusations of fraud, deliberate misunderstanding or
> misrepresentation and many other negative and creative lies
> that you are really good at coming up with as the areas of ignorance
> and superstition that you hide in are rolled back further and further.
>
> With Artificial life though I think you have lost control of your
> bowels just a little bit too early.
>
> Artificial life may happen at any time or it may take some
> decades yet to make a clear and unambiguous artificial organism.
> It may come slowly in stages and require much more gradual
> development to qualify for the label "life" but several steps
> in that direction have already been made and it has you worried.
>
> The impossibility of artificial life was the Sine qua non for many
> in the religious claim of divine creation. That you have retreated
> from it in advance shows that you have already anticipated total
> defeat on that point.
>
> Why don't you argue that "life forms spontaneously in certain
> chemical conditions and develops though natural selection but...
> God works through Quantum Mechanics at a deeper level" .
>
> I mean this is probably just as much BS as is intelligent design
> but it is a better quality of BS and could make you sound
> profound, open minded and reverent because nobody can
> disprove it, YET.. and it could give your religious nonsense a
> 30 years life extension.
>
> I hope the first thing that is invented in artificial life is a virus
> to cure religious delusions.
>
> Happy Pagan New Year RoofUS SpoofUS
>
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