It's ALIVE! - Democratic Underground

goodboy

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Sat May-22-10 10:54 AM
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It's ALIVE!

The experiment involved creating a strand of DNA as specified by a computer in a sequencing machine, and inserting it into a dead cell of M. capricolum, and then watching it revivify and express the artificial markers and the M. mycoides proteins. It really is like bringing the dead back to life.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/its_alive_1.php

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krispos42

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Sat May-22-10 10:12 PM
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1. In the novel "The Light of Other Days"...

Edited on Sat May-22-10 10:13 PM by krispos42

... they did this, cloning people that have been dead for centuries or millenia. Their goal was to bring back to life everybody that had ever lived.

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Joe Chi Minh

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Sun May-23-10 04:44 AM
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2. Don't be daft! This wasn't designed and created, any more than the dead cell of M. capricolum.

Edited on Sun May-23-10 05:14 AM by Joe Chi Minh

They make it sound as if it's some sort of intellectual feat. It just happened. Evolved. Or it was always there, anyway.

Where's the consistency in your thinking, 'naive realists'*?

* Einstein's polite way of calling you 'dummies'.

Weren't they capable of thinking up a design of their own of the simplest of simple cells? Don't they feel any shame at cribbing from the Almighty, the supremely intelligent designer, for such a trifling achievement?

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