Exercise your critical thinking skills

stix wrote:

Sorry stix no one has created life by mixing chemicals yet. They think they have created precursors perhaps. organic molecules and such but not life AFAIK. You would need to provide a credible source I think for that claim to hold sway.

 

By mixing naturally occuring chemicals scientists have created the building blocks of life, but nothing more.

 

Define Sentient Life

The ability to reproduce, and learn are two.

 

When the human race does create a transportation device like the one envisioned in Star Trek what happens to the soul?

 

Is that something that is universally accepted yet imprefectly understood?

 

Unless I'm mistaking the first steps to making such a devise have been made.
Scientists have succeeded in creating a device which would assemble a copy of a (so far very small) object based on the allignment and reordering of atoms.
I know this sounds absurd(especially after my previous error), but I recall having read something about it in a scientific magazin (do you remember as well Roel?).
So far there has only been succes with non-organic object.

Note that any errors I have made in this post should be taken lightly, I should check my sources, but I am lazy and having little time to do so besides my school.

 

I can predict the future!

Tomorrow wherever I go there I will be.

My resistence was weak, lol.

 

"The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff and then go back to sleep..."

 

LOL

 

Ok, how long can a human live?

As far as I am aware, no human has ever got past 120 (and us Christians think we know why - Genesis 6:3 ), although there is always the 'medical science will cure that' approach, and much Sci-Fi predictions of longer (or even eternal) life .

 

Consider this; the very thing that keeps us alive is the main factoring in shortening our lives.
Oxygen

 

It seems that the major problem (or one of them) is that cells have a genetic code that only allows them to replicate X numebr of times. When that limit is reached the cell dies. Without constant cellular renewal the organism dies.

 

The current limit says nothing about any possible maximum because nothing suggests that the currently available health care and and science provides potentially perfect health. Just because no human being has yet, in recorded history, lived to be more than 120 years old, therefore doesn't say anything about any sort of cosmic predestined maximum. You Christians are so silly.

Grieg: I've seen it suggested that if this genetic code can be cracked and then modified, cells could continue to multiply indefinitely. This would be one way to extend life beyond what would naturally be possible.

 

And you atheists are so quick to take things out of context -

 

A common misunderstanding.
The truth is rather close to it though.
Every time a cell replicates or perfroms any other action for which the DNA is used, the DNA can get damaged, partially erased, altered, you name it.
After years of intense use these errors have heaped in such a way that the new cells are already flawed and/or new cells can not be properly produced.
With many defunct cells and less succesfull replication the body starts to fail.....

 

It's not out of context, I'm trying to show you that the 120 number is completely arbitrary and based on current observations which may mean absolutely squat in the future and definitely would have been wild exaggerations a few centuries ago. I'm not saying science will find a cure for a maximum that probably doesn't exist.

 

How about why did i lie on an anthill during my concealment practice outfield?

But anyway,how do we see pictures on the computer screen based on wires?

 

Actually, from what Grieg and Stix have posted, it seems that somewhere around 120 is the rough upper limit, unless we start messing with our DNA.

Kaiser - because the enemy would assume that nobody would be daft enough to lie on an anthill, so they would not bother to check there as thoroughly.

 

Why is Billy older than his twin Bobby, even though Bobby was released from their mother first?

more like a riddle.

here's another.

A man was walking on a street without streetlights, he was wearing a black ski mask, black jacket, black gloves, black pants and black shoes, however a speeding black car without any headlights manages to stop in time before hitting him. How did the driver see him?

the answers to them are simple enough.