Artificial Life (2 Viewers)

[Siretlaw]

The title may be a misnomer, but does anyone think what Craig Venter has just done is amazing?

 

[zombie omie jay]

what did he do

 

[katie tully]

created bacteria

 

[SilverSakura]

And those who r in the church will make a fuss about this... like...'God created everything' (even bacteria) blah blah blah

 

[zombie omie jay]

post a link to stuff he did

 

[Siretlaw]

He inserted a synthesized Genome into an empty cell membrane.

This bacterium can replicate normally.

Catalyst: Dr Craig Venter - ABC TV Science

Craig Venter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[assiduous]

Pretty interesting.
Do you think we can use this to support our F & BR essays?

 

[Siretlaw]

Maybe as an example, but i wouldn't suggest basing your response around this. It's not part of the syllabus, that's why, and BoS is very fickle about that. If you could relate this to the syllabus, maybe.

 

[Phylo]

wow... seriously this is nuts. It gets me thinking, the shit u see in movies might become reality

 

[proletariat]

He inserted a synthesized Genome into an empty cell membrane.

This bacterium can replicate normally.

Catalyst: Dr Craig Venter - ABC TV Science

Craig Venter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

that is groundbreaking

What was the source of the empty cell membrane? And empty as in, empty, or empty as in, cytoplasm only

yes im too lazy to click

 

[thongetsu]

O h i heard about this, we briefly talked about this in bio. Crazy shit. But the implications can be disastrous in the wrong hands

 

[Mayazcherquoi]

Didn't this happen a while ago? :S

But I love all the bullshit comments the Catholic Church has made regarding his work (ethics, apocalypse, etc etc; basically anything to prevent humans from bettering ourselves)

"In the wrong hands, today's novelty could lead to a devastating step into the unknown tomorrow," said Bishop Domenico Mogavero, head of the legal affairs commission for the Italian Episcopal Conference.

"Man comes to God, but he is not God: he remains human and he has the possibility to give life through procreation, not through constructing it artificially."

Religious leaders fear that scientists are "playing God".

"It is human nature which gives its dignity to the human genome, not the inverse. The nightmare to be fought is the manipulation of life," Bishop Mogavero told the Italian daily La Stampa.

Bruno Forte, archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, in central Italy, said: "The worry can be resumed in one question - is what is scientifically possible also just from an ethical point of view?"

EDIT: Source: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/it...devastating-step/story-e6frf7jo-1225869843041