Synthetic Life
Artificial Life from a Laboratory
Scientists are taking designed parts (by God or themselves), assembling them, and claiming they are close to creating life. They also believe this will support the idea that chance, time, and natural laws can bring life from non-life.
Re-creation of a Synthetic Cell
Researchers have acknowledged that this first synthetic cell is more a re-creation of existing life—changing one simple type of bacterium into another. The work of brilliant scientists using millions of dollars of resources still have not produced anything near a new life form from scratch.
Searching for the Origin of Life
Evolutionary scientists are trying to intelligently design (but as of yet haven’t succeeded) a self-replicating organism nowhere near as complex as actual (extant) life via chemicals and mechanisms
Articles About Synthetic Life
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Magazine Department ArticleArtificial Life in Biology?Oct. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Some are claiming that researchers have taken a step toward showing how life could arise from non-life.
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University in Glasgow to Create “Inorganic” LifeSept. 17, 2011 from News to Know
Is it animal, vegetable, mineral, . . . or all-of-the-above?
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Multicellular Life Grows In Test TubeJuly 2, 2011
Selecting for snowflakes or evolution of multicellularity?
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Magazine Department ArticleGet a LifeOct. 1, 2010 from Answers Magazine
That headline—and similar ones—appeared in sensationalist media accounts about the synthesis of a reproducing cell in a research lab.
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Synthetic Organism Spurs Evolution TalksMay 29, 2010
Last week’s major announcement about the creation of a “synthetic” organism spurred evolution talk then—and continues to do so this week.
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Life Has Not Been Made in a LaboratoryMay 22, 2010
Don’t let a headline like “It’s Alive” fool you. Despite some misleading news reports, life has not been made from scratch in a laboratory.*
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Has Life Been Created in a Lab?May 21, 2010
In the past several hours, headlines have suggested that life has been created in a research lab. Here is our initial response.
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Life Almost Created in a LabJan. 17, 2009 from News to Know
The media went wild this week over the “almost” creation of life in the lab.
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Biologists Attempt to Create New Forms of LifeSept. 13, 2008 from News to Know
They may not resemble Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, but will these creations escape the lab and run wild—or just in the minds of evolutionists?
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April 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine
According to media reports, a team of researchers is on the verge of creating artificial life.
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“Creating” Life in the LabFeb. 5, 2008
The team, 17 scientists in all, built the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium by making small blocks of DNA out of chemicals.
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Magazine Department ArticleThe Origin of Life RevisitedJan. 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine
For more than 50 years we have heard reports that scientists are on the cusp of creating artificial life.
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Have Scientists Created a New Life-form in the Lab?Oct. 8, 2007
Over the weekend several news outlets were declaring somewhat definitively that scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have created “artificial life.”
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleSemi-Homemade LifeSept. 5, 2007 from Answers in Depth
Synthetic biologists are convinced their methods will eventually allow them to create life from non-life, but Darwinian evolution cannot bridge the gap.
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Origin of hypeAug. 20, 2007
For more than 50 years we have been told by scientists that they have been on the verge of creating life in a laboratory.
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