Re: [asa] Harvard study

We're talking about a form of life presumably much simpler than a bacterium. Are you implying that bacteria, etc., have souls? (Well, if a fertilized human egg does, why not?)

If indeed there's some life force in all forms of life that only God can impart, then their experiments will fail. (--Unless, of course, God has put the life force in at, say, the molecular level, which I think is a real possibility.) Their experiments will also fail if the simplest possible life forms are too complex to have originated without divine intervention. This latter would mean life forms would be irreducibly complex, and their existence would imply an intelligent Designer.

But why should this kind of research be off limits?

Don

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Gregory Arago<mailto:gregoryarago@yahoo.ca>
  To: Don Winterstein<mailto:dfwinterstein@msn.com> ; asa<mailto:asa@calvin.edu> ; burgytwo@juno.com<mailto:burgytwo@juno.com>
  Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:09 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Harvard study

  "Presumably all that's involved are just chemical reactions, so they shouldn't require great spans of time." - Don

  Just a small sound byte in reply to the distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical biology at X university (who is obviously self-promoting his own fields of study - as if they hold answers to 'important' questions or are less reductionistic than other discilpines/fields).

  "It's all chemistry; no soul please."

  Such is a recipe for (pick your ism, e.g. naturalism or anti-soulism), isn't it? The play on words comes from soul or 'syel,' which can translate as 'salt'.

  Is the 'salt of the earth' un-necessary for ethical human living or even human existence?

  Arago

  OoLUI - Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative, a.k.a. Origins of Life Under the Influence of...Reductionists

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Received on Tue Oct 31 03:53:21 2006