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Life begins before conception
A New Haven Register article on Feb. 5 says that life
begins at conception. Wrong. You cannot create life or destroy it. Life has
existed since the beginning of time. At conception the body starts to create an
entity in man or animal and then evolution takes over. Take a lesson from
Frankenstein. He tried to create life and ended up with a monster.
Dino Zaino
Hamden
posted by Matt DeRienzo at
5:40 PM
1 Comments:
"Life has existed since the beginning of time."
The evidence says otherwise. If you can justify this assertion, your Nobel Prize awaits.
All evidence (assertion is not evidence) supports the hypothesis that life is an emergent property of chemistry and physics, which, on our planet, was first represented by self replicating molecules. This phenomenon appeared about 3.5-3.9 billion years ago, the age of the earth is about 4.54 billion years, so it took around 0.6-1 billion years, but the temperature, and chemical concentrations were what was crucial. It took a very long time for the crust to cool after planetary formation.
You are right about one thing, cells come from other cells. There is an unbroken chain of descent. However new studies are showing that DNA can be artificially created, and used to build useful proteins.
If we are to take a lesson from a fictional character, I would rather take it from Louis Wu, who made good use of the technology of his time.
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