ARTIFICIAL LIFE......ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ARTICLE AFTER MY COMMENT

My Comment.......

Artificial life...artificial intelligence?   Stephen Hawking is worried about it......


Don't lose any sleep over it!

......Man is Created in the image of a PERFECT God whose Laws are PERFECT. If man could create an artificial intelligence greater than himself or create artificial life....it would be something created in the image of an IMPERFECT being.....man.     142 years ago...French Chemist Louis Pasteur performed a very simple "S" shaped flask experiment that disproved "spontaneous generation" of life once and for all and revealed God's PERFECT Law of Biogenesis..."All life MUST come from pre-existing life."   Science celebrates Pasteur's contribution then illogically claims that "spontaneous generation" of the biomolecules occurred at least once....in violation of God's PERFECT Laws of Thermodynamics I might add!  The "spontaneous" formation of amino acids in the Miller/Urey experiment does NOT extrapolate... like many believe... to the evolutionof the polymers of  enzyme proteins and the  "genetic data" memory polymers of DNA and RNA ....BECAUSE.... enzyme protein polymers are REQUIRED to "lower activation energy" in order to form "stable" products from the molecular substrates according to the Laws of Thermodynamics. It's the "molecular" version of the "age old question"...."What came first...the chicken or the egg?"  I believe the "Scientific" interpretation of the Bible reveals that the ANSWER (without climbing up the mountain to ask the Guru!) is obvious....NEITHER!  ALL LIFE COMES FROM PRE-EXISTING LIFE.

NOTE:  They may try to place all the organelles and all the active biochemicals into an "active plasma membrane bubble" and "create life"  but this is futile..BECAUSE  man can't put God into his "home made cell." ONLY God can Create life and propagate life.  The stories that they have already done this is disinformation...all they have done is REPROGRAM with synthetic rDNA  the genetic information in a "preexisting cell!"  Creating "designer" genetic information codes in synthetic DNA.....  (btw....DNA polymerase enzymes are still needed!) ..... is NOT "creating" life from "scratch"...it is merely "modifying" life...which is scary in itself because man is IMPERFECT!   Some atheistic Scientists claim the fact that RNA can act as an enzyme like catalyst.....they are CORRECT...HOWEVER..that does not resolve the "claim" that the biochemical polymers formed by molecular evolution BECAUSE you "need" enzymes to make enzymes...protein or otherwise.

The reason why "atheistic" Science needs a "starting point of the living process" as well as Space-Time-Matter and Energy..... (AND for believers as well)  IS because man is a "mortal beng" and cannot comprehend the simple Truth that Existence is Eternal because God is Eternal..."no beginning and no end."   Genesis does not tell us that "Existence" was Created out of nothing...in fact the Gospel of John merely tells us that "In the BEGINNING was the Word."  The implcation is that God always Existed and always will. The Genesis Creation is about the Creation of "our" planet and what man PERCEIVED to be "ALL" of Reality.   In other words....CREATION is NOT an EVENT...it is an Eternal Process and Astrophysicists today suspect that the Inflation of Space-Time-Matter and Energy in the "Big Bang Theory" just ONE of an Infinite number of Eternal "Creations"....the Multiverse "Bubble Theory." I believe that Pasteur's Biogenesis of Life verifies the Truth that EXISTENCE ...life and non-life has "no beginning or end". 

Stephen Hawking believes that the Laws Physics  (Existence) are so constituted that there is no "need"  for a God to do the Creating therefore there is no "God".....the "math" does it's own creating!   The Bible tells us God is Spirit and this Spirit is manifested in  LOVE, COMPASSION, FORGIVENESS, PATIENCE,HOLINESS etc. AND this LOVE Incarnated in the "flesh" 2000 years ago in the Person of Yeshua ben Joseph..."Jesus the Christ" of God the Father.  This Jesus has revealed to mankind that God is NOT an "External Anthropomorphic Superman" God.  Hawking is CORRECT about this "man made" God because God is Spirit and "NOT a man that He should lie."  I believe the following Scriptures reveal the Truth that God is Spirit......(Psalm 82:3-6, John 14:8-23, Galatians 3:26-28, Colossians 1:27, 2:9-10, 1 Corinthians:3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 1 John 4:11-16)   "In the beginning was the word"......LANGUAGE......the purest form of language is MATHEMATICS.  This said...I suggest that Hawking has unwittingly and unknowingly has repeated what Pasteur did....PROVED the Existence of God!

In Jesus Name...David Brown






Synthetic Life and the Image of God
October 26, 2015
By Guest Writer

If synthetic biologists succeed in creating synthetic life, does this accomplishment prove the theory of naturalistic evolution—that life arose via undirected random processes? Does it make humans like God? The answers to these questions might be found in the creation of humankind in the image of God (imago Dei in Latin).

The Bible says that “God created man in His own image” (Genesis 1:27, NASB), but what does it mean to be created in the image of God? A clue is found in the next verse: “God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth’” (Genesis 1:28, NASB). We have argued elsewhere that a logical interpretation of Genesis 1:28 is that men and women are formed in the image of God to continue God’s work of bringing order out of chaos.

Humans are the only life-forms on Earth who have the ability to understand and experiment in science. Science has made agriculture much more productive than in biblical times and has developed electricity and machinery, which have vastly improved our quality of life. We believe that this is part of subduing and ruling creation and, thus, is a manifestation of the image of God.

But do we ever become like God? Consider the practice of medicine. According to James, prayer is always a prescription for healing: “Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord” (James 5:14, NASB).

Prayer acknowledges that humankind is dependent upon God for our lives and our existence. Moreover, statistical studies seem to indicate that patients who are prayed over experience better healing and/or fewer complications than patients who are not.1

Yet throughout history, humans have also benefitted from medical science. Ancient healers crafted natural remedies, and modern physics and chemistry have developed diagnostic scanners and pharmaceuticals to address a variety of medical issues. Such improvements in medical science have alleviated human suffering and extended human life. But does that make us like God? Such advances have not created anything conceptually new and do not lessen humankind’s dependence on God. Instead, humans are acting as God’s image bearers when we make things better. As the old DuPont advertising slogan stated: “Better things for better living...through chemistry.”

But consider in vitro fertilization. This process has been a boon for couples who have been unable to produce children the natural way. But is this an example of science creating life? Life is not really being created; instead, we are only creating an environment in which God’s natural processes toward life can proceed. Humans might be acting godlike, but humans are not being like God.2 We are acting as God’s agents to improve the lives of childless couples.

That brings us to the question of artificial life. One of the biggest obstacles to the naturalistic creation model is its theory for the origin of life. The earliest life-forms appeared quite soon (in geological time) after the formation of Earth. Probability calculations suggest spontaneous generation of life via random natural processes is virtually impossible within the time frame allowed.3

Synthetic biologists are striving to create synthetic life. Based on a detailed review of their progress in 2011, biochemist Fazale Rana says it is “just a matter of time” before they succeed in creating a “minimal life-form,” and he speculates that thereafter “new life-forms will soon become ‘old hat.’”4 Supporters of naturalistic evolution are elated about this progress because they seem to believe artificial life will prove their explanation of the origin of life.

But they are wrong—such an accomplishment says nothing about naturalistic evolution. If and when artificial life is created, it will be made possible only by teams of experienced and creative scientists with sophisticated equipment. Rana summarizes: “Only by deliberate effort, inordinate ingenuity, and astonishing skill can synthetic biologists even begin the process of making artificial life. Their work empirically demonstrates that even the simplest life-form cannot arise without the involvement of an intelligent agent.”5

The notable work of synthetic biologists is simply a derivative of God’s work. Once again, although scientists may be acting godlike, they are not being like God:

    They are using their God-given intelligence and creativity, which is unique to humans.
    They are working within a framework of natural laws created by God, without which their accomplishments would be impossible.
    They are merely repeating something God has already done. They are not creating something conceptually new (as described by the Hebrew word bārā’ in Genesis 1).

As Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Artificial biologists not only stand on the shoulders of scientists who went before them, but as God’s image bearers they also stand metaphorically on the shoulders of God.

Furthermore, if science succeeds in creating artificial life, it will actually provide further proof of the implausibility that life could have emerged spontaneously via random natural processes. The creation of life still seems to require an intelligent agent. The probabilities of naturalistic evolution remain vanishingly small, and the summary analysis of astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle seems just as true today as it was in 1982:

    If there were some deep principle that drove organic systems towards living systems, the operation of the principle should easily be demonstrable in a test tube in half a morning. Needless to say, no such demonstration has ever been given. Nothing happens when organic materials are subjected to the usual prescription of showers of electrical sparks or drenched in ultraviolet light, except the eventual production of a tarry sludge.6

We believe the intelligent agent who created life on Earth is the Judeo-Christian God. This is a faith statement, but it seems more plausible than naturalistic evolution. As synthetic biologists attempt to create artificial life, we believe they will merely scratch the surface in discerning the natural processes that God might have used to bring about the hypernatural miracle of life.

Daniel J. Dyke, MDiv, MTh

Mr. Daniel J. Dyke received his Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1981 and currently serves as a professor of Old Testament at Cincinnati Christian University in Cincinnati, OH.

Dr. Hugh Henry, PhD

Dr. Hugh Henry received his PhD in physics from the University of Virginia in 1971, retired after 26 years at Varian Medical Systems, and currently serves as lecturer in physics at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, KY.