Some of Our Greatest Scientists of the Past where Christians. Where would We be in science today without Them?
Some of the Greatest Mathematicians of the the Past where Muslims. Where would We be in mathematics today without Them?
Probably just where we are. The difference between revealed religion on the one hand, and science & mathematics on the other, is that the latter would inevitably be discovered by someone else; they are not dependent on the "lone genius", as they reflect natural effects and laws. Calculus, to state a well-known example, was developed by two thinkers, totally independently of one another, at almost the same time (Newton and Leibniz).
Science has not really tried to explain Themselves (scientists) enough so the ordinary person can understand the science well enough. We are to take no matter what as the only truth the only correct way of Understanding Our World that We live in.
Of course they have tried to explain themselves! You haven't ever stepped into the science section at your local bookseller and seen the rows and rows of books by science popularizers? You've never heard of folks like Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Matt Ridley, Brian Greene, Steven Pinker,
et ceteras ad nauseam?
I truly don't care about the religious aspects. I was trying to get somebody to answer My questions I have asked only. Nobody has not answered them either. I was not trying to bring Religion in to it You have made Me bring it in the end.What started the moment of The Big Bang?
We can not go back to the very moment of The Big Bang when it started. We can only go back just before The Big Bang started.
What started the moment of Life on Earth?
Can We yet start that moment of Life when it began on Earth?
Has science yet started Life, or created Life, or a new species of Life?
Science can only enhance existing Life.
So when will somebody try to explain these questions?
Okay, Peter covered a lot of this, so I'll just add a few details and links.
Has science yet started Life, or created Life, or a new species of Life?
See the article below for the middle question. Science has started life, in the sense of getting the chemical bonds to occur spontaneously, which is all that is really required in broad terms. Almost everything about the subsequent development of such primitive chemical 'lifeforms' can be explained with current evolutionary theories (frameworks). As for speciation, this occurs on a routine basis in research on more primitive organisms, from bacteria to insects, since these critters have a lifespan brief enough to observe in controlled experiments.
excerpt:Countdown to a synthetic lifeform
11 July 2007
Synthetic life could be just around the corner - depending on what you mean by "synthetic".
Last week, genomics pioneer Craig Venter announced that his team has passed an important milestone in its efforts to create a bacterial cell whose genome is entirely synthetic - constructed chemically from the building blocks of DNA. Venter claims this goal could be achieved within months.
But while Venter's synthetic genome will be housed within an existing bacterial cell, other scientists are aiming for the even more ambitious target of building an entire living cell from the basic chemical ingredients. Giovanni Murtas of the Enrico Fermi Centre at the University of Rome 3, Italy, reported last week at the Synthetic Biology 3.0 meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, that his team had taken a step toward this goal by successfully synthesising proteins in cell-like compartments.
According to George Church at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who has devised a complete blueprint for a synthetic cell, an investment of around $10 million would be enough to turn the "bottom-up" dream into reality. "Our approach doesn't require any super new technology," he says.
Whichever definition of synthetic life you adopt, it seems now to be a question of when rather than if. "We are at the doorstep of being able to create life," says Steen Rasmussen, a physicist trying to create artificial living systems at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
{follow link above for full article}What started the moment of The Big Bang?
There is a lot of work done on this topic, but the following is a great place to start:
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe, by Simon Singh. It is a very recent book by a science popularizer that you should be able to find in any Barnes & Noble or Borders (or what-have-you). It brings together the current state of our knowledge of that period, as well as the evidence to support those views.
You might also want to look at
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith, which touches on both of your questions.
