Apologetics Science Based ?

saltwn · #1 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 12:14 AM

Here is an article explaining studies done that revealed life could have begun from clay. Sound familiar?
Feel free to post any similar items grounded in scientific fact that support Biblical principals. And by all means, argue the points if you've a mind to !

Did Life Originate from Clay -Science Fiction or Reality? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Did Life Originate from Clay -Science Fiction or Reality?
Harvard Medical School began investigating the molecular origins of life in order to understand how chemicals combined to form the first living organisms on primitive Earth.

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Building on earlier work by other scientists, Szostak and colleagues began experimenting with a clay mixture common on early Earth called montmorillonite, which was found to catalyze the chemical reactions needed to make RNA.

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So, did life originally spring from clay as some earth-bound creation myths assert?

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Not necessarily, but it does provide a possible mechanism for explaining how life initially arose from nonliving molecules.
Szostak's team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital showed that the presence of clay aids naturally occurring reactions that result in the formation of fatty sacks called vesicles, similar to what scientists expect the first living cells to have looked like.

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Further, the clay helps RNA form. The RNA can stick to the clay and move with it into the vesicles. This provides a method for RNA's critical genetic information to move inside a primitive cell.

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The researchers also found that the clay expedited the process by which fatty acids form vesicles that could serve as cell membranes. When RNA and fatty acids were mixed with the montmorillonite, the clay seemed to help transport the RNA inside the vesicles, forming a cell-like structure. Szostak and his team surmised that a similar process could possibly have led to the creation of the first cell.

Did Life Originate from Clay -Science Fiction or Reality? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
O.K. I knew that.

Learned it in Sunday School.
I read a related article on this subject so many years ago that it must have been based on the original studies.

The question I asked myself then and still ask is this:
If there was no creator to get the ball rolling and then give this information to Moses about how we were formed, then how the heck did Moses know we came from clay?!

cnredd · #2 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 03:27 AM

Not to be a downer, but if people spent more time on the present issues like cancer and bird flu and less time on some hypothetical theory for 30,000 year-old explanations, we'd accomplish much more as humans...

chuck7251 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

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If there was no creator to get the ball rolling and then give this information to Moses about how we were formed, then how the heck did Moses know we came from clay?![/font][/color]

He took it from Greek mythology of course... when Zeus created man from clay

crazyflamingos · #4 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

If there was no creator to get the ball rolling and then give this information to Moses about how we were formed, then how the heck did Moses know we came from clay?![/font]

Space and/or time travelers?

tecoyah · #5 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Here is an article explaining studies done that revealed life could have begun from clay. Sound familiar?
Feel free to post any similar items grounded in scientific fact that support Biblical principals. And by all means, argue the points if you've a mind to !

Did Life Originate from Clay -Science Fiction or Reality? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Did Life Originate from Clay -Science Fiction or Reality?
Harvard Medical School began investigating the molecular origins of life in order to understand how chemicals combined to form the first living organisms on primitive Earth.

Did Life Originate from Clay -Science Fiction or Reality? | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
O.K. I knew that.

Learned it in Sunday School.
I read a related article on this subject so many years ago that it must have been based on the original studies.

The question I asked myself then and still ask is this:
If there was no creator to get the ball rolling and then give this information to Moses about how we were formed, then how the heck did Moses know we came from clay?!

Obviously....Gods Koolaid contains tequilla!

Gotsta Get me some O' That Jeebus Juice

saltwn · #6 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tecoyah

Obviously....Gods Koolaid contains tequilla!

Gotsta Get me some O' That Jeebus Juice

Even though that statement is off topic, I love it. You are so cute!

And, ya never know. Cause he is God, so he can have access to anything he wants.

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