[metmom]

One of the most promising developments lies in a beaker of water inside a Florida laboratory. It's an experiment called AEGIS -- an acronym for Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System. Its creator, Steve Benner,

Oh, the irony......

[YHAOS]

”Oh, the irony......”

There is more than one irony, I think. NASA, for its own purposes, has defined life: a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.

Somebody (several somebodys) has raised the issue of a fetus – is it alive by NASA definition – and the political and ethical issues the question arouses. Let me simply observe that no life (of which we know) is sustainable in an environment that is not suitable for that life’s existence. So, a human fetus is no more in an environment suitable for its sustenance than any other life-form. And, in many instances anyway, I’m not sure what “Darwinian evolution” (micro? macro? natural selection?) has to do with a definition of life.

[Texas Songwriter]

Scientists came up with a definition for life -- a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution

Now life is defined, not by the creator of life but by the enemy of the Author of Life, per their definintion.

I have a definition of life.....The biochemical expression and/or supernatural expression of the genetic code.

If successful, they will only prove life had a creator. They kick against the pricks, professing themselves to wise they have become fools, vain in their own conceits, worshiping the creation more than the creator.

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL! Thanks for the ping!

[Fichori]

“Oh, the irony......”

Yep.

The day an intelligent scientist creates life in a laboratory will be the day that they prove that all life was created in a laboratory by an intelligent scientist.

So, where did the first intelligent scientist come from?

Thats what I want to know.