Give arguments to back up your statements. You've done it again just now.
For your first question, I've clearly explained that limited knowledge gives limited answers. We don't know for a fact how life started. I went through this with you. Don't just say say it can't be natural and then make something up about natural meaning artificial, give me your arguments. If you think you have given actual arguments then I don't know how to explain the difference between claims and statements and arguments.
Can humans create synthetic life through any other processes? Google Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. But what exactly does this have to do with anything?
Let me try to explain again about the creation of life.
My hypothesis/statement (whatever you feel comfortable with) is that humans cannot create life from scratch and that life does not come into existence naturally. Now when I say life cannot be created by humans from scratch I mean any life not just the organic life we know of. So that includes robots or any other physical object as well. I'm not including life in computer programs ie software because they are virtual. If we included computers then that would mean we could say that we have created humans as well as other universes.
The reason why not being able to create life from scratch is strange is because it's a very common entity found on the planet earth. Life is simply atoms and molecules arranged in a certain order. That's all nothing else. There is no mystery regarding what they are composed of. For me it's reasonable to assume that because life is so common on the earth and it's simply atoms and molecules arranged in a certain order then it should be pretty straight forward to put those molecules together and see life being created. Now if this did happen then no one would think much of it and move on. However because we can't there's significant amount of research going on to find out why - and I think there should be more.
Also I'm not saying that we need to recreate the same steps that allegedly occurred when the first life form(s) came into being. I'm saying that we should be able to take the simplest cell and recreate it by which ever means without using another living entity such as a cell or other component of a cell. We know all the components of a living cell so it should be possible to simply recreate those components and put them together.
Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 - is not life created from scratch. Scientists simply cloned DNA and put that into and existing living cell. That's not creating life from scratch since they had to use another living cell. This just goes to show how much technological capabilities scientists have that they can clone DNA which are some of the finest components of a cell. Scientists can do this yet they can't do that with the rest of the components of a cell. You should be thinking why.
I believe the Quran says we humans cannot create life (please don't go into procreation it's not the same thing). The creation of life for me is divine. Only God can do it. This is one of the miracles of God which God is showing us clearly. When we see new life come into being we are witnessing a miracle in front of our very eyes. This is one of the ways in which God manifests his abilities and power. Most importantly it's fully open. There is no hiding or mystery or some supernatural event occurring (for now these kind of things are observed at the quantum level
). The Quran is a revelation telling you the reader to look in the earth and around you and learn about God himself. I personally believe the prophet Mohammed did no miracles, there was no splitting of the moon or any other miracle done to convince the people that he was indeed a prophet sent from God. The people of the time were meant to believe based on reasoning rather than seeing a dead person being brought back to life or the blind being cured. There are a number of powerful verses in the Quran which explain clearly why there is only one God. When reading the Quran you have to bear in mind that this was revelation given primarily to pagans. It refers to the Jews and Christians as well but it addresses them from a different perspective ie. it is re-confirming their beliefs.
So the people who believed the prophet Mohammed did so based on their own reasoning rather than seeing any miracles. This is so that we can not say that the followers of Mohammed had an advantage over us since they physically saw miracles. In fact the science, technology and knowledge we have today is in fact more of an advantage to us today and puts us in a weaker position when it comes to the Day of Judgement. Incidentally a so called born Muslim does not have any more advantage than a non-Muslim but I guess that is a different topic.
How all this relates to God is that I am trying to gather hypothesis/statements which point to God. For many just one thing may not be enough to convince someone that we have good evidence or at least reasoning for God but several hypothesis/statements may convince the majority of doubters.
I think for each hypothesis/statements it's possible to come to a conclusion. In this case it's pretty clear that humans cannot create life from scratch. I KNOW that you guys will say that this is just something that we have no knowledge of or that we may be able to do it in the future. I accept that. What I want to get to is what we know NOW. We can argue all day long about what could have happened in the past or what will happen in the future but we will never know for sure. All we know is what we can test today.
Hope the above clarifies where I am going with this. So the question for you is whether you are going to accept that humans cannot create life from scratch today?
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