Study suggests life sprang from clay

cnn ^

[chance33_98]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Science backed up religion this week in a study that suggests life may have indeed sprung from clay -- just as many faiths teach.

A team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said they had shown materials in clay were key to some of the initial processes in forming life.

[nwrep]

Kudos to CNN for acknowledging the existence of the Bible. Now, where did they manage to find a copy? It must have been difficult for them.

[PoorMuttly]

Google.

[eddie willers]

Gosh...I hope this doesn't turn into a crevo thread.

[chance33_98]

I don't spend much time pondering where we came from, more interested in where we are going :)

[Doc On The Bay]

"Dust to Dust!!"

Doc

[chicagolady]

I beleive it!


Jesus said He is the Potter and we are the clay.

[aardvark1]

The Gideons probably left one in the lobby recently. Ted Turner hasn't had a chance to find it and throw it away...or at Jane.

[GeronL]

cool!

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - YEC ALERT

[SpaceBar]

All your smectites are belong to us.

[BulletBobCo]

I've always known that.

[Ahban]

"We are not claiming that this is how life started," Szostak stressed.

"We are saying that we have demonstrated growth and division without any biochemical machinery. Ultimately, if we can demonstrate more natural ways this might have happened, it may begin to give us clues about how life could have actually gotten started on the primitive Earth."

Reading the actually study, the way they got "growth and division" was to force the bubbles through tiny holes and then pinch them off. That is not even close to natural cell division. How much money did they get to prove you can pinch one bubble into two, and grow a bubble by lowering pressure outside/raising it inside?

They are even wrong on the claim that they got division and growth "without any biochemical machinary." The scientists themselves were the biochemical machinary.

[cookcounty]

" helps form little bags of fat

Fat? From clay? Clay with no biotic material already in it? I doubt it.

[Consort]

Clay's matchmaking could have sparked life

It's a claymation universe.

[cookcounty]

""We are not claiming that this is how life started," Szostak stressed.

Oh, now I get it. The headline is supposed to read:

"Study Doesn't Suggest Life Sprang from Clay"

[nmh]

Nah, can't be ;)

The godless evolution crowd believes we evolved form something - like aardvarks. LOL!

Of course God created as just as He said.

[Entropy Squared]

I don't spend much time pondering where we came from, more interested in where we are going :)

This reminds me of a philosophical question I once heard. "If you could learn where we came from, or what our ultimate achievement will be - but you could only learn one of the two - which would you choose to learn?"

[Flightdeck]

If this research was as valid as the headline so optimistically proclaims, it points directly to evolution.

[Oreo Kookey]

It doesn't take much for the athiests to come crawling out of their dark pit. I guess they think they have to quickly put down the truth before someone believes it. How juvinile of them.