What did God do before creation?

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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 26954 Credit: 6,725,431 RAC: 9,905	Message 1320117 - Posted: 26 Dec 2012, 13:22:42 UTC
	Judging by some of the posters here, I thought we already had :-)
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bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 1913 Credit: 13,945,361 RAC: 3,075	Message 1320156 - Posted: 26 Dec 2012, 16:40:28 UTC - in response to Message 1320115.
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years? ____________ I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...
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Guy Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1696 Credit: 4,663,858 RAC: 35,337	Message 1320183 - Posted: 26 Dec 2012, 21:37:48 UTC - in response to Message 1320156. Last modified: 26 Dec 2012, 21:38:24 UTC
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years? bobby I didn't say "man should have." How do you know what happened before you became aware? You weren't there so how do you know? What IS nature to you? Is there anything that has been proven to you to your satisfaction without witnessing it?
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Do Keep Trying Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 9201 Credit: 1,278,714 RAC: 15	Message 1320257 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 0:28:25 UTC - in response to Message 1320183.
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years? bobby I didn't say "man should have." How do you know what happened before you became aware? You weren't there so how do you know? What IS nature to you? Is there anything that has been proven to you to your satisfaction without witnessing it? Who says you're aware now? "Go ask Alice" ... or Reginald Broccoli.
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dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 341 Credit: 1,078,360 RAC: 0	Message 1320282 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 1:38:38 UTC - in response to Message 1320117. Last modified: 27 Dec 2012, 1:40:39 UTC
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? ======================================================= Have you looked at congress lately seems like a lot of slime mold has been created there. ____________
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(banished: ID 187472) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 11729 Credit: 5,969,466 RAC: 344	Message 1320312 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 4:30:13 UTC - in response to Message 1320115.
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? Has anyone attempted to? Are you sure it hasn't been done?
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Do Keep Trying Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 9201 Credit: 1,278,714 RAC: 15	Message 1320329 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 5:12:19 UTC - in response to Message 1320312. Last modified: 27 Dec 2012, 5:19:55 UTC
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? Has anyone attempted to? Are you sure it hasn't been done? It has indeed been attempted. Originally, success was touted. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything that still touts it as a success. I guess the beaker was contaminated? I do not know where I originally heard of the experiment. I'd like to say "Cosmos", but something tells me I am wrong. [EDIT]I guess it was covered in Cosmos! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet1xkAv_HY.
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(banished: ID 187472) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 11729 Credit: 5,969,466 RAC: 344	Message 1320338 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 5:38:54 UTC - in response to Message 1320329.
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? Has anyone attempted to? Are you sure it hasn't been done? It has indeed been attempted. Originally, success was touted. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything that still touts it as a success. I guess the beaker was contaminated? I do not know where I originally heard of the experiment. I'd like to say "Cosmos", but something tells me I am wrong. [EDIT]I guess it was covered in Cosmos! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet1xkAv_HY. I believe you missed a word at about 28 seconds and the same at about 58 seconds. It is an experiment to build amino acids and it worked. AFIK no one has tried to go from amino acids to life. Bit harder to put a black smoker and a tide pool in a flask. ____________
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bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 1913 Credit: 13,945,361 RAC: 3,075	Message 1320348 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 6:33:14 UTC - in response to Message 1320183.
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years? bobby I didn't say "man should have." How do you know what happened before you became aware? You weren't there so how do you know? What IS nature to you? Is there anything that has been proven to you to your satisfaction without witnessing it? Indeed you didn't say "man should have", you asked "why hasn't". When one asks "why hasn't such and such thing been done" the implication is that it should have been done. If you did not intend the implication then my apologies, otherwise you are being disingenuous. How does one know anything? What in the quoted post suggests I know anything of what took place billions of years ago? Nature to me encompasses all things all matter/energy, forces, their interactions and everything that arises from them. And to your final question, yes, for instance, my parents had sex about 9 months before I was born, while I did not witness the event, it has been proven to my satisfaction. ____________ I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 7707 Credit: 3,890,033 RAC: 1,642	Message 1320430 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 14:28:10 UTC - in response to Message 1320338.
	...[EDIT]I guess it was covered in Cosmos! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet1xkAv_HY. I believe you missed a word at about 28 seconds and the same at about 58 seconds. It is an experiment to build amino acids and it worked. AFIK no one has tried to go from amino acids to life. Bit harder to put a black smoker and a tide pool in a flask. What life and what mechanics implementing that life? Some good food for thought: Artificial life Non-cellular life Hypothetical types of biochemistry Now to cook your cookie... Are we God to the a-life forms when we run an a-life simulation on a computer? What of the Matrix?... Keep searchin', Martin ____________ See new freedom Mageia3 Mandriva Linux A user friendly OS! The Future is what We make IT (GPLv3)
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 7707 Credit: 3,890,033 RAC: 1,642	Message 1320432 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 14:35:11 UTC - in response to Message 1320348.
	Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet? ... And to your final question, yes, for instance, my parents had sex about 9 months before I was born, while I did not witness the event, it has been proven to my satisfaction. For doing that the 'hard way' outside the machinery of cellular life, various groups are indeed putting together the tools and examples for doing just that. However, the immense detail required is expensive and so there is a long way to go yet... There's going to be some fantastic medical spin-offs as a result. As for why we're not able... Well, we are! Looks like I've been beaten to that answer for working within the existing cellular machinery! Keep searchin' Martin ____________ See new freedom Mageia3 Mandriva Linux A user friendly OS! The Future is what We make IT (GPLv3)
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 26954 Credit: 6,725,431 RAC: 9,905	Message 1320445 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 15:51:25 UTC
	Nobody has yet proved there is a god, therefore how can anyone guess or imagine what one might have been doing before "creation". Nobody has proved that any god created us either, therefore it is a nonsense question. If it was re-worded to ask "Assuming that there is a god, and assuming that this god did create the world and the universe, then what did this god do before that?" then you might have a basis for some conjecture. Even then there is simply too much assumption. This is a waste of time!
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betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 1550 Credit: 2,609,912 RAC: 5,588	Message 1320523 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 20:09:11 UTC - in response to Message 1320445.
	+1 ____________
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dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 341 Credit: 1,078,360 RAC: 0	Message 1320553 - Posted: 27 Dec 2012, 21:56:58 UTC - in response to Message 1320441.
	You would all be off topic. The question is what God did before Creation, not after creation. None of you joined in the conversation on topic and are still off topic now. ================================================ that is not true I said he delivered pizza. But more to the point if god is infinite he she or it is unknowable. there for any god that is knowable is a creation of man, any other view is the height of arrogance. so are you arrogant, or is it ok to say the universe is a neat place but man does not know every thing yet:) ____________
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