[Dan Day]

"You're reaching again. DNA works by ordinary chemistry, there's no magic "breath of life" that has to be added to it when its environment contains the appropriate chemicals."

Nonsense!

Name those "appropriate chemicals" if that's really the case

Wow, now we need to add basic organic chemistry to the topics of which you're entirely ignorant.

Here you go, Sparky: DNA Polymerase I, DNA Polymerase III, DNA topoisomerase I, DNA Ligase, RNA primase, DNA Single-Stranded Binding proteins, and dNTPs.

(hint: you can't).

Hint: You're an ignoramus.

[Southack]

"Hint: You're an ignoramus."

I've been pretty tolerant of your name-calling so far, but at some point you are going to have to clean up your act (or get banned).

Moreover, your name-calling distracts from the subject at hand, and it also reduces your already-low credibility.

Hopefully, that's enough said on that matter.

[Southack]

"DNA works by ordinary chemistry, there's no magic "breath of life" that has to be added to it when its environment contains the appropriate chemicals." - Dan Day

Nonsense!

Name those "appropriate chemicals" if that's really the case - southack

"Here you go, Sparky: DNA Polymerase I, DNA Polymerase III, DNA topoisomerase I, DNA Ligase, RNA primase, DNA Single-Stranded Binding proteins, and dNTPs." - Dan Day

Didn't you just claim that there is no magic breath of life to animating DNA?

Surely even you realizes that merely adding DNA Polymerase I, DNA Polymerase III, DNA topoisomerase I, DNA Ligase, RNA primase, DNA Single-Stranded Binding proteins, and dNTPs to currently inanimate DNA will FAIL to animate it.

All of the appropriate chemicals may be there, yet the dead guy remains dead and buried (or even, dead and in the lab).