Duplicating Life on Science Channel

[Sledge187]

Anybody seen this yet? Incredible stuff! This is going to change everything we have ever known. My question is, if we duplicate a person what kind of person will we have created. Many people believe the soul and the body are separate. If we create a person then what kind of door are we opening? Why am I picturing those horror movies where we open a dimension to another dimension. Not to mention this finding could stop the aging process and cure all diseases.

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Science Channel Announces The Debut Of Exclusive Look Into Dr. J. Craig Venter's Creation Of Synthetic Life
May 20, 2010

Science Channel Documented the Five-Year Pursuit to Produce Life Synthetically for Creating Synthetic Life, premiering Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 8PM ET.

Discussion With the Experts, Creating Synthetic Life: Your Questions Answered, premieres at 9PM ET.

Watch video! [http://science.discovery.com/videos/...nthetic-life/]

Talk about this discovery and submit your questions for the experts on Science Channel's Facebook Page.

Washington, D.C. - Today, world-renowned scientist Dr. J. Craig Venter announced that he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) became the first in history to synthetically create a living, self-replicating cell. The news holds groundbreaking potential for solutions to a host of global challenges, including generating new food sources, pharmaceuticals and vaccines; cleaning up pollution; creating new energy sources; producing clean water; and more.

Now, Science Channel is exclusively bringing viewers inside Dr. Venter's pioneering quest to produce life synthetically in Creating Synthetic Life, premiering Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 8PM e/p. Over the course of five years, only Science Channel cameras captured the failures, successes and breakthrough moments of Dr. Venter, Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Dr. Clyde Hutchison and JCVI researchers as they meticulously sought to create a synthetic single-celled organism.

What exactly does today's news mean for the human race? Where exactly will it take us? Could the technology be used for negative purposes? What are the ethical concerns we must weigh before using it? Following the premiere of Creating Synthetic Life, Science Channel delves deeper into the ethical and scientific implications of this discovery in Creating Synthetic Life: Your Questions Answered, premiering Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 9 PM (ET). This one-hour special is an open forum discussion featuring Dr. Venter, leading bioethicists, top scientists and other members of the scientific community discussing the breakthrough's ramifications and how it may change our world and the future.

Your Questions Answered allows viewers to ask the experts about how this technology will affect their lives. From now through May 26, submit your questions via Facebook, and they could be asked during the show. [It appears to me that they are no longer taking questions. May 26, 2010 is long gone. lol! I personally don't think it would be appropriate to submit a question(s) from this topic that was asked prior to or on May 26, 2010 and submit it without prior consent of the individual who asked the question here on this topic, which is on this website Physicsforums. Thanks, Mars]

"Science Channel brings viewers closer than any other network to scientific discoveries that are changing our world," said Debbie Myers, general manager and executive vice president of programming, Science Channel. "With Creating Synthetic Life, we're on the ground floor of cutting-edge science. We're giving audiences a platform to consider the issues and repercussions of this news, and directly question those leading the innovations."
[Please read on . . .]
http://science.discovery.com/tv/crea...s-release.html "

[THE PROFIT]

Here we go again!!! Please explain to me what a goddamn soul is! You can't because it's imaginary

[Snowball]

there are many things our senses do not see, but they are not imaginary..
UV rays, microwaves, X-rays, radio waves, gravity, etc.


I am a physicist and I would like to invite you in the site of the “Center of Scientific Divulgation about Consciousness”:
where I analyse the incongruencies of the materialistic conception of the mind, on the basis of our present scientific knowledges about brain and matter.
This analysis points out how the laws of physics prove that the brain cannot generate consciousness, which existence implies the presence in man of a unbiological/unmaterial element. The problem of consciousness is then strictly connected to the one of the existence of the soul and, consequently, the existence of God.
In the first article entitled “Mind and brain...” you can find a general discussion of the mind and brain problem from a scientific point of view.
In the second article entitled “Scientific contradictions in materialism”
you can find an explanation of the fundamental inconsistencies of the typical arguments used by materialists, such as the concept of emergent, macroscopic or holist property, complexity, information, etc.
In the section called “FAQ: answers to visitors' questions” you can find the answer to many typical questions, such as "Are there any scientifically proved miracles?", "Does the existence of the universe imply the existence of God?", "Can science explain God?", "Can science establish which is the true religion?", "Can science explain consciousness in the future?", and many others.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html

[Snowball]

concerning the "sythetic life" breakthrough, it is not true life. the cell which the chromosomes were implanted into was not created by the scientists, nor were the chromosomes they implanted that blank check cell with.

[JW Cash]

Ya got texts on Duplicating life here


ya got texts here asking if you ever thought about killing yourself...

I am so damn confused....

[brooks85]

When the Wright brothers first took flight, they said it was not true flight. They said the plane only stayed up for a few seconds, didnt go very far, could only carry one person. Well, look at aviation now.

The fact these scientist were able to duplicate life, that is what they did, means it is only a matter of time before they can literally reconstruct life.