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sonOfLucifer:
Smh.

Now, I believe you're a doctor. Your poem reads like a drug prescription... I don't understand it..

sonOfLucifer:
Lmfao. You no well at all.

Tufanja:
I dont really care. The big boys always turned out to be bad guys. So yeah, i will first look at the content before I measure now.

Tufanja:
Correction, i am not that tall. I am just 181cm, about 6ft. Before u accuse me of lying :p. U can come and measure hahaha

JackBizzle:
Plaetton? Plaetton is one of the calmest guys on NL. A cool atheists


Muskeeto, Weigraff and logic mind......these guys could frustrate even Jesus.

JackBizzle:
Sorry, was replying a lot of people, I mistook you for tufanja....she 6.4ft

sonOfLucifer:
Damn.. Doesn't really matter.. Taller than you by probably a strand of hair... Except you're bald..

JackBizzle:
Easy for you to say. Do you date guys that are shorter than you?

JackBizzle:
What? Do you think that I'm some crazy psychopath that is always angry?

I'm smiling most of the time when I'm on nairaland.....except when I'm dealing with ishi....................................

JackBizzle:
Anyhoo, I'm of average height. I'm taller than most women I meet. But I'm skinny,so I'm shorter than I look

sonOfLucifer:
6'3..
Na wa oo... all these Igbo boys turning to Kenyans..

JackBizzle:

JackBizzle:
I swear, I didnt mean that.

Anyhoo, is that your secret? You havent told me what you guys eat to get body like that.

I look like a teenager compared to you and johnydon....what do you guys eat?

JackBizzle:


Sarcasm does not translate well on the internet

CoolUsername:
Error margin is reduced by using several rock samples for the dating.

sonOfLucifer:
I don't think it necessarilly follows that an all-powerful God can not be good.

If we are created, we all have a purpose which we must fulfill. Without him, we wouldn't have life in the first place. So we never really 'own' life.. We only get to keep it for a said time as defined by God.

This would mean God's purpose before man's. And thus, only one sharing the same attributes as God would be able to question his judgement or morality. We will be nothing but pencils in the hands of the creator.

Cc Joshthefirst, reyginus, kingebukasblog

CoolUsername:
This is the sort of thing that some people do that makes me angry, this article points out that they worked on the M. Mycoides cell and to create Syn3.0, a synthetic cell that has a lower number of genes than any other bacterium found in the wild and can still support life.

The Guardian corroborates the story.

So does Medline.

Don't lie to protect your fragile beliefs.

CoolUsername:
Wait, if an artist chisels a rock down to make a sculpture, then by your logic we can say that he didn't really create the sculpture, right?

plaetton:
My only apology is to myself for casting pearls(science) before the proverbial swine( religious nuts).

plaetton:
If engineering a new life form is different from creating a new life form, then I should be asking for a refund of all my English lessons paid for.

Basically, you are implying that in your universe, your God is simply a creator, a cosmic magician that pulls rabbits of out of a cosmic hat.

He is neither an author, designer, architect , engineer or programmer, just a magical creator who creates from cosmic nothing.

plaetton:
If engineering a new life form is different from creating a new life form, then I should be asking for a refund of all my English lessons paid for.

sonOfLucifer:
Will shysa... be there? Will there be doughnuts in heaven?

Joshthefirst:
Nothing in that article points to this.

So this thread is basically untrue. And you're basically lying.

plaetton:
So, do you first of all agree that life has indeed been created in the lab?
If you do, then you agree that life is simply a fruit of a chemical reaction.
That's all that I am interested in highlighting here.
Now, whether such chemical reactions need an Intelligent supervision or can occur in nature without Intelligent supervision is a subject for another debate.

In their current work, Venter, along with project leader Clyde Hutchison at JCVI, set out to determine the minimal set of genes needed for life by stripping nonessential genes from Syn 1.0. They initially formed two teams, each with the same task: using all available genomic knowledge to design a bacterial chromosome with the hypothetical minimum genome. Both proposals were then synthesized and transplanted into 
M. capricolum to see whether either would produce a viable organism.

“The big news is we failed,” Venter says. “I was surprised.” Neither chromosome produced a living microbe. It’s clear, Venter says, that “our current knowledge of bio
logy is not sufficient to sit down and design a living organism and build it.”

[b]Venter and his colleagues had better success with trial and error. They divided Syn 1.0’s genome, with its 901 genes, into eight sections. To the beginning and end of each section they added identical DNA tags that made the pieces easy to reassemble. That allowed them to treat the sections as independent modules, removing each one in turn, deleting chunks of DNA, then reassembling the full genome and reinserting it into M. capricolum to see whether it produced a living cell. If the altered genome wasn’t viable, they knew they had cut out an essential gene that had to be restored. The researchers also assessed the necessity of numerous genes in the microbe by inserting foreign genetic material, called transposons, to disrupt their function.

All this enabled them to systematically whittle away genes that either had nonessential functions or duplicated the function of another gene. In the end, Venter says, his team built, designed, and tested “multiple hundreds” of constructs before settling on Syn 3.0, with a genome about half the size of Syn 1.0’s. (Syn 2.0 was an intermediate stage in this process, the first microbe with a genome smaller than that of M. genitalium, which with 525 genes has the fewest of any free-living natural organism.)[/b]

Once the whittling was complete, the researchers reordered the remaining genes, aligning ones that work in common pathways. The procedure tidied up the genome much as a computer compresses and re
organizes files on its hard drive to save disk space. This will likely make life much easier for synthetic biologists who will experiment with Syn 3.0 in the future, Voigt says.

menesheh:
Point of correction, I never meant that you are silly but that your capacity to process information is flawed. And still pretty hasty to conclude that it is false, therefore, there is no need to be happy for such a milestone reached in science.

zeemahn:
Visit the link na.

menesheh:
What about this comment below from same passage.




Always endevour to read between the line.

Actually am not a bit surprice, this is the sort of brain chemistry from people who believe that unknowable and undemonstrable realms can exist out of nothing and remotely believed it very strongly

Now, a new breakthrough is threatening to confirm the position that we have always held; that when the right chemical and environmental threshold is attained, anything is possible, including life.

JackBizzle:
Doesn't matter.

It makes a good origin story.

JackBizzle:
GAME OF THRONES!!!


King Tommen Barratheon, First of his name.

Knight Josh of Nairaland, First of his name- hence, Joshthefirst!

Kay17:
What family planning methods did you have in mind?

plaetton:
Lol

I presume that you are one of the elect handlers for scripture?

But why does scripture require handlers?

MRBrownJ:
but yes, of course, we should continue forcing these UNFIT/UNWILLNG mothers to have these unwanted kids, so that they can throw them in garbage bins and gutters.

Kay17:
The abstinence crowd wouldn't talk about the failures of abstinence. When sexually active adults are battered by raging hormones, when Nature has appointed the age when we reproduce, who are We to deny such a natural process?

Besides abortion helps keep the population stable, we can't recklessly bank on abstinence.