Comments on: Life Created By The Hands of Man vs. GOD. Is there a difference?

By: Exavier

Exavier — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:23:08 +0000

I rather take my chances with nature. Will also bet that most in the world would do same.

By: Tara S. Riley

Tara S. Riley — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:46:18 +0000

thanks,buddy,i like it

By: SurfaceEarth

SurfaceEarth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:31:28 +0000

the end then has been a long time coming………….

By: SurfaceEarth

SurfaceEarth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:31:11 +0000

ah, the patience of a mayfly, interesting. Always questioning the impact of environment on waiting genes…………

By: SurfaceEarth

SurfaceEarth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:29:58 +0000

well, most of the world or would it be society, is fairly scary. peace.

By: SurfaceEarth

SurfaceEarth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:29:29 +0000

I also heard one about ants knowing when others were carrying/pregnant/etc. and were not supposed to be and went on the attack. Unfortunately, I don’t have the resource, but will look for same. thanks for sharing the links, we’re on it…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:30:56 +0000

“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.” (Revelation 20:13)

We are fools. This will be bring the end of us all!

By: Grego

Grego — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:06:11 +0000

So the biggest fear noted here is Man with all the power of the Almighty, but with the patience of a Mayfly. I agree, but I am inclined to risk it. I think we are up to the task. Indeed, if the price of engineering out of our genome the likes of cancer, childhood leukemia and a host of life altering birth defects is an occasional Frankenstein or two, then the risk is well worth it. Besides, history has already brought us a number of Frankensteins. If Man accidentally or deliberately creates one or two, who is to say that he has done a worse job than God.

By: Kily Cloony

Kily Cloony — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:22:01 +0000

Our imperfect democracy has found a way to evolve into something better over the last two centuries, even the last 40 years has been a sea change. God didn’t see it worthwhile to give my grandmother or any woman before her, the right to vote in her own country. There are millions of babies suffering with horrific genetic challenges. Maybe this news is not such a bad thing. Maybe time has come for the All Mighty to step aside and give us all a turn at playing God.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:28:08 +0000

I imagine that humanity is far better prepared for the finding of life on Mars or the moons of Saturn than the “Frankenstein-like” world that would surely result at the hands of man with all the power of god and the patience of a Mayfly.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:44:10 +0000

This scares me and I ain’t afraid of nothin’!

By: Swismiself

Swismiself — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:16:37 +0000

Word.

I read another article that was even more interesting, as it seemed to give to give pause to the idea that Lamarkian genetics was total fable.

I believe this article came from a recent Newsweek article. Essentially, there are these strange looking beetle that, if the mother is attacked by a predator and survives, her offspring are born with spikes, and if the mother goes through life without an attack on her life, her offspring are born without spikes.

How utterly bizzare is that?!

Also, here’s another cool article, though totally unrelated:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/22/fish-gender.html

It reminds me of the premise of SeaQuest – that though mankind has extensively studied space, our deepest oceans yet remain a mystery. I think even today we know more about stars millions of light years away than we do about our own ocean.

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:09:44 +0000

what an interesting piece.

Frankly, I have the opinion that only ‘life can beget life’…whether that life comes through the instrument of man, animal, plant or whatnot.

I think the bigger question for me is not so much “can man create life” but “what will man do with the life he creates?”