Man one step closer to God?

[Noah]

This thread has a pretty terrible title.

An imaginary friend lesser persons has isn't worth mentioning to such an impressive scientific achievement. It just opens up for retarded posts like "My imaginary friend is better than your science".

[Summa]

Back on topic ignoring some semantics about rome and greece, humanity will never achieve the level of 'God'. I mean cloning yeah, but actually creating life and engineering DNA? No one truly understands DNA or how its written. Furthermore, if some God didnt exist how was something as complex as DNA ever created? Some things are just meant for us to never fully comprehend

It seems a bit ridiculous to make this claim after reading this article. Someone just created RNA, so how could DNA not be a possibility? It is merely one step further, one more scientific advancement. Or if the RNA world theory is correct, DNA is just a mutation of the RNA that we just created. If that is the case we just need the correct circumstances to mutate the RNA into DNA and potentially have life. Isn't one of the principle characteristics of God is that he and only he can create life? Well if we are knockin' on the doors of creating life, then aren't we also beginning to put a foot in God's realm? (barring there is a God of course)

[Vykromond]

a distant roar heard from outer space

-- lols produced by this thread

[the_paul]

Right, because the Romans and Greeks were so secular.

This.

[Kolar]

Most physicists agree that time travel to the future is entirely possible, but due to that altering of light cones and universe histories, going back in time wouldn't work at all. It's basically like you could travel to 2050 or 2100, but couldn't return once you were there. I'm also pretty sure there are Fermilab experiments going right now that are trying to simulate this using particles--basically to have the particles time travel from our instant to some point in the future and have detection software ready at that specified time, and basically the particles will just "appear" as if out of thin air. Complicated shit, to be sure, and exactly why I'm not a quantum physicist.

Isn't it easier then that Fit? If you sent a spacecraft at sufficient speed away from Earth the time-dilation effect would "send" them to the future, given that the local-perceived time within it is slower in relation to the rest of the universe.

[Zerzera]

I could see it happening, I have always said that "The Time Machine" is a pretty accurate depiction of the future of humanity.

Yes, and Alexander Hartdegen is guilty of ethnic cleansing.

[Fit of Rage]

It occured to me a few years back that humanity will go extinct before we can invent time travel, because otherwise someone would have come back and warned us about the fact that we would go extinct. Since no one except Ahnold has travelled back in time, it's safe to assume that it will never happen.

That thought made me sad.

Most physicists agree that time travel to the future is entirely possible, but due to that altering of light cones and universe histories, going back in time wouldn't work at all. It's basically like you could travel to 2050 or 2100, but couldn't return once you were there. I'm also pretty sure there are Fermilab experiments going right now that are trying to simulate this using particles--basically to have the particles time travel from our instant to some point in the future and have detection software ready at that specified time, and basically the particles will just "appear" as if out of thin air. Complicated shit, to be sure, and exactly why I'm not a quantum physicist.

[DoTheFandango]

Right, because the Romans and Greeks were so secular.

[MetalHeadz]

A brief look at the history books reveals that those countries which have favoured modern scientific ideas in favour of superstituous religious ones have been most successful. Religion is largely a waste of time, from the perspective of a pragmatist, unless you can somehow use it to inspire order or control.

[DoTheFandango]

You didn't even join the forums till December of 03, nobody cares what you say newbie.

check my date.
n00b.

also,

[Kolar]

I think you're wrong Izor. Very simple lifeforms have been designed but not created, a lot of it is on the fringe of science today. I don't know much about genetics but we have decoded the human genome and that of other animals and every other day a gene which controls a specific trait or biological process is discovered. If we can reduce a complex system we can understand it. How this brings us closer to some divinely power I don't know, by definition we can never come to that level because the super natural is outside of what is reducible and understandable so it's most likely a moot point.

[gran guerrero]

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

- Bill Hicks

[Izor]

Back on topic ignoring some semantics about rome and greece, humanity will never achieve the level of 'God'. I mean cloning yeah, but actually creating life and engineering DNA? No one truly understands DNA or how its written. Furthermore, if some God didnt exist how was something as complex as DNA ever created? Some things are just meant for us to never fully comprehend

[Xog]

lol kthx thanks for taking me out of the picture!

epic fail :P

ITT: Picture of ignite with ex's
begin picture poasting

[gran guerrero]

what does one say in this thread