Scientist creates lifelike cells out of metal
Researcher says he has created living cells made of metal instead of carbon — and they may be evolving.
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Geodude does exist!
Big deal...he used mercury.
Nothing newsworthy there...move along...
The evolving or adapting of creatures over time is a process that we can see tanable results from today. But all the animals that God created have never evolved into any "new" animal or person, there is no proof, nor do we see it happening in any way today.
Tangible*. What proof do you have that a "God" created animals? You "try" to disprove evolution because you feel that we cant physically see it right now (even though almost every branch of science believes it to be true), but have no problem with blindly believing that some sort of God created everything with no proof to back up your claims.
parting from the fact that metals like that are way to rare in enviroment for the cell to be making membrane polymers out of them; is it viable that live form in earth?
in my thoughts I look for a viable solution an the only more element I found viable for tht in earth is silicon (Si) because of its carbon similar bonding an hybritation orbitals stability characteristic, the only problem I see with that os the rigid and crystaline structural molecular characteristic of silicon based.... More
If you look closely, you can see the person taking the picture.
I´ll be back!
Another rung in the latter of the coming robot takeover...
And thus the Silver Surfer was born
lame
Evolution is fact whether you like or not.......You cant just say well evolution isnt real because i say so....come up with examples
Why not?
Except there is no such thing as evolution..
Evolution is fact. Evolution is change over time. Things change. Instead, try attacking abiogenesis!
So why have no other animals "changed". All other primates have remained nonhominoid for 60million years! I'm not saying that evoluton doesn't play a part.
Survival of the fittest and most addaptable but explain the "big brain event" which happened in a very short period of time and explain why we lost our fur but then needed to make clothes to survive! This doesn't fit in with survival of the fittest, nature does not make clothes and without them we would have froze to death!
You're right! Clothes don't come from nature! Clothing was made by early humans as a way too keep them warmer. We lost the hair on our bodies due to the lack of need for it. Why? Because people with the gene for less fur became dominant, they didn't die because they made their clothing for warmth. Your theory is horrible. Evolution makes complete sense. I don't agree, however, that all life began from one organsim.
1. Land living ancestors of whales
2. Origin of feathers
3. evolutionary history of teeth
4. Origin of the vertebra skeleton
5. Fossil evidence
6. Homologies
7. Distribution in time and space
8. Evidence by example
All evidence of evolution. I also have evidence of bible errors if you want those to, because after all, it was written and translated by man.
@Berysax Evolution and the Bible really are comparing apples to oranges. Only an idiot would say nothing evolves since God created it. Religious differences aside, evolution exists.
Pick up some books and read.
ADHD is not a disease. There's nothing 'wrong' with me. I have a slightly different amount of a couple of chemicals in my brain. It's called a disorder because of the magnitude of difficulty the person has integrating with 'normal' society - an average which we all are outside of. So we learn a couple of tricks, maybe take some meds to bump us in the right direction in order to function within that. Being attention deficit is a much more interesting.... More
three questions for you, do u also believe in the theory of Global Warming?
and secondly if evolution exists why is that other species dont evolve to be more like humans because as can easily be shown by our world we are by eons more advanced than the nearest "animal" species out there why is it we just managed to be tht far advanced
and thirdly evolution is based upon the theory of only the strongest survive which yes makes complete sense i can agree with this statement to an.... More
Are you an idiot?
Your not an idiot for attempting to refute a scientific theory that is what scientific advancement is based on. The only problems I have with your argument is you have your facts wrong. First off "Global Warming" aka climate change is a fact over the period of time the data was collected the it can be shown that the Earth is in a faster then normal warming trend the part that is argued is whether man made thing caused or increasing that rate of the warming trend. Second we didn't evolve from.... More
First off everyone knows global warming isn't a real thing. You don't have to be the "REALIST" to know that. Second evolution isn't the idea of survival of the fittest. That would be social darwinism which maybe close but are by no means the same thing. "Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations." taken from the dictionary and as you can see there is clearly nothing that says its the survival of the fittest. This intern.... More
"Sincerely The REALIST"
Do you believe in the theory of gravity?
I would like to make a few point here.
1) Other species are not evolving to become more human like because there is not a set goal to evolution. Organisms change to meet the demands of their environment. Or environment was structured such that increases in intelligence, the development of a complex language, the use of tools, etc. were beneficial and increased our probability of survival and procreation. Other organisms (e.g., crocodiles and sharks) have not changed much for.... More
Micro evolution does exist. Evolution across species has not been proven sufficiently. It still takes a leap of faith to understand how life started. Folks like Richard Dawkins even stated that perhaps life was planted by something or someone (but it can't be God obviously because they don't believe a god exists). And how convenient that humans reached a "level" where they don't need to evolve anymore.
I like this so much more than a like button allows me to show.
Hahaha
I just read a different MNN article about inventors who were killed by their inventions. Has this guy ever seen terminator? He might end up on that list someday ; ) Haha
One word: Replicators....
This is absolutely fascinating. The possibilities that can arise from this research are unfathomable. It also raises new questions that if a scientist can do that here, maybe it has already been done somewhere else in the universe. Extraordinary. Absolutely extraordinary.
why not concentrate on eradicating killer viruses first then play God
technically that would be playing God as well
There's no money to be made for a cure, only the 'maybe it will work' treatment
oh the irony
For all we know following this study maybe even could lead to certain cures. Maybe if they actually do evolve they'll develop necessary things, required to make cures. Just sayin'.
to killing is better than creating...hmmm
hmm let me see. oh yes I understand you're asking why doesn't every single scientist give up their life calling and work to sit down and attempt to complete a single task MANY scientists are already working on?
Probably because that's an idiotic and narrow-minded question. It's not like the only people working on viruses are sitting around sucking their thumbs and drooling. Many scientists devote their lives to such a task. Don't ask such stupid questions. It's insulting to the people.... More
Most scientific breakthroughs occur on accident, while studying other things. So the only rational thing to do is: study everything. period.
Eradicating viruses 'is" playing God
A step closer to creating a race of bio-mechanoids.
Just as long as this doesn't lead to a "Battlefield Earth" Sequel, then he would be a mad man!
Could this, if further developed, become the infamous Grey Goo?
This is not surprising at all. To think we humans are the only living things is this vast universe. Is ridiculous. WE think we are intelligent and superior today. However thousands of years ago our ancestors created things we have a hard time duplicating today. Why? Everything and anything is possible.
And this is how the Stardroid known as Mercury came into being.
Only one question: What is life? Nobody answered it yet in from scientific community.
