"Douglas Berry" <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:23:06 GMT "Semper Libčr® ."
> <•nopolicestates????!?~Hj77@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> carved the following into
> the hard stone of alt.atheism
>>
>>No problem... I nearly fell out of my chair when I read his comment that
>>it
>>is "pretty simple to create life from nonlife [sic] in a lab". That is a
>>very profound error with regards to the available data. Every experiment
>>so
>>far has succeeded only in "making" mud and goop, and none have even come
>>close to getting all the building blocks needed for life, much less life
>>itself. Anyone tells you any different is lying through their teeth.
>
> Tell these guys that.
> http://tinyurl.com/4ouo9l
> They built a polio virus from scratch. A viable virus that was able to
> reproduce itself, take in nutrition, all those good things. They did
> this six years ago.
>
What you call "scratch" are functioning cells, each being an enormous
molecular machine park of irreducible complexity, with thousands of
interactive machines in each cell. ...Hardly "scratch".
