No men OR women needed: artificial sperm and eggs created for first time | Mail Online
This is an interesting read to say the least. I marvel at how far we advance in science… yet how little we truly understand it.
Yes, we can do great and wonderful things, even manipulate existing DNA. We are at the forefront of a brave new world.
But… do we really know what we are doing? Science says that up to 95% percent of the human genome is made of “junk DNA.” Some say it is junk, left over from evolution others say it may have new uses. Regardless, we don;t really know!
Yet, they can manipulate this and create different kinds of cells from stem cells. This is great and may lead to new therapies.
But the tell… comes in the comments:
Don’t keep publishing stories like this ! It upsets the ‘Creationists’ – we aren’t supposed to be able to create life, you see, it is all down to the great master in the sky !
I have to really laugh at stuff like this! The commenter has failed in critical thought. Here’s how:
First… I am a “creationist” and am not upset about a story like this… unless, the stem cells were removed from an aborted baby.
Second… “we” (I read that as human beings) have NOT created life… “we” have only manipulated a few stem cells to make sperm and eggs. This is a natural existing process.
Third… He is the Great Master, but does not reside in the sky. That is language you use to make sense of God to yourself.
What I would really like for science to achieve is this… to create their own dust from nothing, merge this dust into their own elements, create their own error-correcting genetic code, create a living cell with that code, and then have that living cell replicate and evolve into a higher life form. These are some of the simpler tasks… but an already existing single cell organism is so vastly complex that science cannot create one, from nothing.
This commenter does not understand that these scientists are using Someone else’s dust and His patterns. That does not really impressive me or scare me at all.
Romans 1:18-22 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Look really hard at those single cells… explain how the genetic code came into existence without a sender and receiver who have agreed in advance to the code, otherwise it would be gibberish. Explain your way out of irreducible complexity. Or try something easy how does biochemical protein folding EVOLVE into being?
No men OR women needed: artificial sperm and eggs created for first time | Mail Online
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A Time for Choosing – 45 years later
A Time for Choosing
by Ronald Reagan
October 27, 1964
To a significant degree, Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency stems from this speech, given on national television on behalf of, and sponsored by, Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. The speech remains amazingly fresh as a statement of modern American conservative philosophy four decades after it was delivered.
Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn’t been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks.
I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used “We’ve never had it so good.”
But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn’t something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to spend $17 million a day more than the government takes in. We haven’t balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We have raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations in the world. We have $15 billion in gold in our treasury–we don’t own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are $27.3 billion, and we have just had announced that the dollar of 1939 will now purchase 45 cents in its total value.
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