just following on from that theme, heres a little scenario for those who have trouble thinking outside the circle
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Werner Arber and his mates wake up one morning and exclaim "we can now permanently stop the degeneration of human DNA from viral attack" etc etc ----
Werner gets on the blower to Jack Szostak and his mates who can now concoct cell membranes out of fatty acids and nucleotides at will ---- hell, they'll even clone your mother in law
--- too easy !!
The boyz have an idea ---- They borrow a space rocket from Nassa (with Obamas permission of course) ---
they email John Archibald Wheeler; Johnno who recently flew to Mars for the weekend through a Wormhole has now perfected space travel through his studies of nuclear fission and the S-matrix
They set up a conglomeration of test tubes with various adaptations of cloned molecular constituents resembling various life forms on earth ---- bung them on the rocket, and fire the rocket to
Planet X in a distant galaxy via an available wormhole -- (bit like Noahs ark on a galactic scale )
The rocket lands in a distant galactic swamp, where the various cloned lifeforms begin to reproduce and "evolve" ---
a few thousand years later, species have evolved, chaos has become ordered through natural selection and a "society" has been born --- yay!!
The higher life forms (which were created in our image
) start to question where they came from --- we occasionally send the odd "hint" to their planet to indicate that they are not the only life form in the universe --- after all, its pretty easy to get dejected about your existence when your friends are all dying from strange diseases that seem to appear out of nowhere
!!
Here on earth we continue to monitor our "experiment", but basically keep our distance --- we drop the odd new viral plague on Planet X so the higher life forms can hopefully learn how to look after themselves and "their" world ---
As they come to understand and comprehend the complexity of life,
many start to assume ownership of this knowledge cause it makes them feel superior -- (atheistic stance)
Many others simply cant or wont try to fathom the complexities and conclude "god did it" (Godders stance)
In the above scenario ---- Werner Arber, Jack Szostak and John Archibald Wheeler will in fact collectively BE
"God" to many of the inhabitants of Planet X !! ----
as scientists get closer to undiscovered truths (stopping/reversing disease and ageing ), perhaps man will become a god to his own galactic experiments --- food for thought perhaps (chew well b4 swallowing!!
)
now back to my wormhole :aliena: