Bang Goes the Theory: Craig Venter Interview

Aired July 27, 2009 on BBC's new show 'Bang Goes The Theory'

Tackling the science behind the headlines, Liz journeys to meet a US scientist who is developing his own controversial solution to solving the world's energy crisis. Craig Venter, one of the first people to sequence the human genome, is working to create the first generation of artificial life.

via http://www.Atheistmedia.com
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[MrBrucebracey]

very interesting video thanks

[CitizenRaisingCain]

Revolutionary? hahaha! Another new Messiah for the antiChrists to worship. GMO$ will feed the world! $ound familiar? If GMO$ are so good for you, why is it that the only food cos. that state GMO on their labels are the ones THAT DON'T CONTAIN ANY! And I hope Venter is paying a carbon tax on the CO2 he captures. It's toxic you know. Ask Al Gore. Venter is a Fraud-God who thinks he can cure mankind's woes. No different that the phony televangelist who promises a stairway to heaven. Quack quack!!

[MrJonkelp]

interesting video and very informative

[toobsucker]

@KogeOfDoom "Seriously get over yourself Intelligent Design is not Science"

Intelligent design proponents find is amusing how evolutionists parrot "I.D. IS NOT SCIENCE" over and over while science practices I.D. every day. Don't let the simple concept escape your liberal mind. I.D. is simply using an intelligence to arrange DNA & RNA sequences to achieve specific results

And you do realize science will build a cell before chemical reactions do, proving a mind is the simplest way

[KogeOfDoom]

@toobsucker So what is Intelligent Design if not a religious paradigm for the creation story? What other intelligent being is being referred to if not a supernatural "god" of sorts. Aliens? Energy beings from a distant galaxy? The Force? Seriously get over yourself Intelligent Design is not Science it's pseudo-scientific religious psychobabble and a very vain VERY unpatriotic need to indoctrinate America's youth into believing in the Christian God is the only logical answer.

[gadionson1]

good job .

[toobsucker]

@RamadaArtist ""proto-ribo-rna can exist" is *falsifiable* (and with synth genomics may soon be simply proven) while "GODDIDIT" is not"

Whether or Not proto-ribo-rna can exist is not the issue, but rather do we witness the evolution of any molecular machines. All of them (that I have studied) are completely conserved.

Changing a species protein folds (morphology) IS DARWINIAN EVOLUTION. Protein misfolding causes less fit organisms.

And I reiterate I.D. does not equate GODDIDIT

[toobsucker]

@RamadaArtist "We are very close to testing the minds ability to design and build a cell." And, YET AGAIN, all this will prove is that it is possible for intent to drive genetic change, not that it is necessary for any stage of it'

Personally I believe intent is 100% necessary because undirected (chemical reactions can go in many directions) non-intentional mechanism have never shown this ability, a mind has.

That said if you agree intent can be a cause, then you cant reject intentional I.D.

[RamadaArtist]

@toobsucker In fact, all the proposed early-earth conditions may be reproducible (and eventually, with higher resolution interstellar planetary investigation, may be simply observed,) while none of the implications of the existence of a non-material-yet-causal intent can be shown by any means more robust than "I don't have a better explanation."

[RamadaArtist]

@toobsucker "We are very close to testing the minds ability to design and build a cell." And, YET AGAIN, all this will prove is that it is possible for intent to drive genetic change, not that it is necessary for any stage of it.

"However how is it you don't see this is exactly the same as GODDIDIT." Other than that the claim, "proto-ribo-rna can exist" is *falsifiable* (and with synth genomics may soon be simply proven) while "GODDIDIT" is not. Hence the OPERATING DIFFERENCE.