Do you think man can create life from non-living thing ?

Question

"The resulting M. laboratorium bacterium is expected to be able to replicate itself with its man-made DNA, making it the most synthetic organism to date, although the molecular machinery and chemical environment that would allow it to replicate would not be synthetic."

Human are learning to "create" life by copying from the existing "life" and try to replace part of the life "parts". We can make a human brain with man-made body parts, limbs, heart, lung, blood etc. but we still cannot create a single cell. Philosophically, I belief that there is a understanding that life is not a product of non-living things. If this is belief is true, there is no way man can make life.

Answer 1

Not yet...

The closest is Craig Venter's group - who have "created" Mycoplasma laboratorium, a "stripped down" bacterium which has the minimum number of genes that permit a viable organism (381 genes). This is, however, a modified version of another bacterium called M. genitalium.

Answer 2

It seems to be just a matter of time for this to happen.  People are working on this right now.

Answer 3

"Philosophically, I belief that there is a understanding that life is not a product of non-living things. If this is belief is true, there is no way man can make life."

Huh?  Light was once exclusively a product of non-living things.  It was only produced by hot gasses, stars like our sun, and molten rock.  However, life found a way to produce light both biologically (like fireflies) and mechanically (fire and flashlights).

Man has learned to create so many things that were once the product of non-living processes already that it's absurd to conclude that man can never duplicate those processes.  Heck, under some of the broader definitions of "life", man has already created life in the form of computer viruses and the species in some computer simulations.  See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_...

Answer 4

Maybe all things are living we just don't enough yet to classify them.  I mean that if there is energy may that means things are live.

Answer 5

living things were created from non-living things