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CERN seeks to create life in the lab

In February 2013 AD Gunter von Kiedrowski and Eors Szathmary organized a meeting took place at the CERN facility, “to discuss and debate the origin of life.”
One attendee was Stuart Kauffman who wrote the article, “Chasing The Seeds Of Life,” NPR, April 26, 2013AD.

Succinctly stated, CERN is now encouraging the world’s scientists to replicate life’s origins. Kauffman notes that “The…now dominant, origin-of-life theory is the ‘RNA world’” and that “so far no one has achieved template replication of RNA or its cousins [DNA]. But they may well do so in the future.”

In a very common turn of a common parlance employment of a term he falls into a common misconception in stating that “people have tried to evolve a ribozyme that can…” do this and that. They point being that evolution is blind, random and does not have a goal in mind—as it has no mind. By stating that “people have tried to evolve” something is a contradiction in terms as that which people, in this case scientists, is the exact opposite of blind, random and goaless but is mused upon, expanded upon, planned, carried out, etc. What they are doing is intelligent design and not evolution.

Kauffman notes that “firm theory and theorems have recently been developed to show that such collectively autocatalytic sets are expected to emerge spontaneously in sufficiently diverse chemical-reaction soups.”

You see, they are concocting experiments that are meant to simulate the natural world or, actually, an imaginary world of days gone by before anyone recorded exactly how the world was. Thus, they invent convenient mixtures of chemicals and conditions that they think will get them the results that they want—much like the Urey-Miller experiments (which the article mentions).

Thus, whatever the results are, they will not be naturally occurring evolution but unnaturally concocted intelligent design.

Kauffman ends by noting:

The workshop at the CERN meeting focused attention on the metabolism first approach. Both it and the RNA world need exploration.
The meeting ended with a proposal to get the research community organized behind a common effort, hopefully benefiting from the experience of CERN in fostering international collaboration.

Thus, the end result is that CERN now proposes that international collaboration take place in order to reproduce, or simply produce, life.

For details of the history of origins of life issues, see the following:

John Horgan, “In the Beginning…” – Scientific American

The Origins section from CMI’s main essay on Atheism.


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