214 - What do you need to make life?

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What do you need to make life?

The scientist as Brandeis university have produced a robot, starting with a computer-generated design which the computer has then built in real-life. The robot has four working parts, but the scientist had to install a motto and a microchip.

The most misleading part of the university's work was their announcement that the computer had been using a program similar o what they called Darwinian evolution. For a start. Darwinian evolution has absolutely no goal or direction in mind. Secondly, the fact that a computer had to be designed before it could make a robot utterly destroys the Darwinian theory that a design can occur without a prior designer.

The achievement by the scientist is certainly outstanding. These clever people have built a machine which can then design other machines which are, in some very primitive aspects, actually lifelike. Of course life is not as simple as four working parts, so we have a long way to go before a computer designs life.

As molecular biologist and evolutionist Michael Denton said "Although the tiniest cells are incredibly small... each is a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms far more complicated than any machine built by Man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world."

The achievement at Brandeis university shows once again that in order for something purposeful to produced, intelligent input must be applied from the outside.

What a brilliant machine we have made by accident!

The Bible days: "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?" Job 28:12 (King James version)