Creating Life in the Lab: How New Discoveries in Synthetic Biology Make a Case for the Creator

by Fazale Rana

Overview

Each year brings to light new scientific discoveries that have the power to either test our faith or strengthen it--most recently the news that scientists have created artificial life forms in the laboratory. If humans can create life, what does that mean for the creation story found in Scripture?

Biochemist and Christian apologist Fazale Rana, for one, isn't worried. In Creating Life in the Lab, he details the fascinating quest for synthetic life and argues convincingly that when scientists succeed in creating life in the lab, they will unwittingly undermine the evolutionary explanation for the origin of life, demonstrating instead that undirected chemical processes cannot produce a living entity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441214584
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Fazale Rana (PhD, Ohio University) is vice president of research and apologetics at Reasons To Believe. He is the author of The Cell's Design and coauthor, with Hugh Ross, of Origins of Life and Who Was Adam? Rana lives in Southern California.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 10

Acknowledgments 11

1 Waking Up in Frankenstein's Dream 13

2 Life Is like Music 23

3 Blessed by a New Species 32

4 Treading in the Steps Already Marked 48

5 Becoming Acquainted with the Principals-and Principles 70

6 A Scientist's Splendor 83

7 The Particulars of Life's Formation 98

8 Conquering the Challenges 113

9 Promised Impossibilities 122

10 The Agony of Reflections 137

11 United by No Link 153

12 A Thousand Other Miseries 173

13 Persevere in Exile 182

Epilogue: Borne Away by the Waves 196

Appendix: An Introduction to Biochemistry 199

Notes 209

Index 230