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After all, you guys keep saying that since the DNA of everything on the planet is made of the same building blocks, it's a sign that creation is fact, and that your god designed everything 'in his image'.
The existence of a life form that does not share the building blocks of every single other living thing on the planet kind of shoots big fat holes in the creation myth (not that it could have many more holes than it already does).
If it doesn't fit their world it will magically be ignored and hopefully go away. Poor Lilith knows that, but powerful, independent and equality minded women (which means "evil" in "Christianese") just do not jive with a male dominated cultural institution bent on solidifying and expanding their power.
After all, you guys keep saying that since the DNA of everything on the planet is made of the same building blocks, it's a sign that creation is fact, and that your god designed everything 'in his image'.
The existence of a life form that does not share the building blocks of every single other living thing on the planet kind of shoots big fat holes in the creation myth (not that it could have many more holes than it already does).
Catholicism doesn't have any problem with this. God didn't design everything in his image. A worm for instance probably doesn't look like God. Nor does the Bible say that animals were created in God's image. That would be man, maybe. So comb the hair down your back and return to a calm position.
Besides this isn't a new life form. It's a old life form newly discovered. If a person believed God created arsenic based life directly, I don't have a problem with it. God's laws and properties of nature clearly allowed for it's existence, or God did indeed create it, or the new life form was seeded from a different world and it was created or evolved somewhere else.
Catholicism doesn't have any problem with this. God didn't design everything in his image. A worm for instance probably doesn't look like God. Nor does the Bible say that animals were created in God's image. That would be man, maybe. So comb the hair down your back and return to a calm position.
Hold on a minute there, smartypants. I can't count the number of times a creationist has pointed me toward DNA and claimed that because all DNA on the planet earth is similar, that it 'proves god created us in his own image'. I'm not talking about simple outward appearances.
Now, since this life form happily uses arsenic as its DNA backbone instead of phosphorus like every other known living thing does, it's not like us. It is completely alien to all other known life on this planet.. Therefore, claims by creationists that our globally similar DNA shows we were created/designed go POOOF.
As soon as we get legit AI, silicon-based life forms can also be a reality.
Also, @Mercury's response to juj: Catholics aren't creationists. At least, most of those that understand what they believe aren't. There can be some confusion (and Thomas R. once pointed out a man who claims Catholics SHOULD be creationists, though he wasn't exactly popular). Saying you disagree with creationists should not affect your opinion of those outside that group; namely, juj and I.
Anyway, all this arguing aside, this sounds like a REALLY interesting discovery and I'd like to hear what Rifleman has to say about it, unless he's already heard.
Hold on a minute there, smartypants. I can't count the number of times a creationist has pointed me toward DNA and claimed that because all DNA on the planet earth is similar, that it 'proves god created us in his own image'. I'm not talking about simple outward appearances.
Now, since this life form happily uses arsenic as its DNA backbone instead of phosphorus like every other known living thing does, it's not like us. It is completely alien to all other known life on this planet.. Therefore, claims by creationists that our globally similar DNA shows we were created/designed go POOOF.
Again.
Easily explained MC....It was not the same God...It was the Arsenic God that created the new found life...All hail the Arsenic God!
If its DNA is radically different from the DNA of every other living thing on the planet, then the most likely assumption would be that it is not of this planet. It would seem to indicate the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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