Creating life - mankind will do it Comments

Posted September 12, 2008

Those who thought that only God could create life are in for a nasty surprise. Wired has this article about a team of scientists who are close to creating life from scratch. The scientists are able to build protocells using fatty molecules (for the cell membrane) and inserting bits of nucleic acids containing ’source code’ for replication.

These guys aren’t able to get the cells to replicate properly on their own yet - only certain DNA sequences get replicated. But they are close to creating a new form of life.

Because God made it that way Comments

Posted April 2, 2008

This is actually the philosophy of a remarkably high percentage of the world!

It’s because God made it that way

Link from Photo Basement

Islam overtakes Catholicism in numbers Comments

Posted April 1, 2008

Massive mosque at the Muslim holy site of Mecca

National Geographic has this article saying that Islam has now overtaken Catholicism as the world’s largest religion. According to the article this is the current breakdown (percentage of world population):

  • Islamic: 19.2%
  • Catholic: 17.4%

That said, Christians as a whole are still by far the largest religious group comprising 33% of the world population.