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

by Fazale Rana

Book, 2011

Status

Available

Call number

212.1

Genres

Publication

Baker Books (2011), 240 pages

Description

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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jjvors
Excellent survey of the current efforts to create life in the laboratory. Dr. Rana covers the difficulties and successes of origin of life researchers over the past 50 years. He highlights how even successes prove the existence of a Creator God and that Christians need not feel threatened by this
Show More
 research, but to rejoice in the benefits that will result from it.
Show Less

Language

English

Physical description

240 p.; 5.91 inches

ISBN

0801072093 / 9780801072093

Local notes

Reasons to Believe

Similar in this library

The Cell's Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator's Artistry by Fazale Rana
Beyond the Cosmos: The Extra-Dimensionality of God: What Recent Discoveries in Astronomy and Physics Reveal about the Nature of God by Hugh Ross
Who was Adam?: A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Man by Fazale Rana
The New Answers Book: Over 25 Questions on Creation / Evolution and the Bible by Ken Ham
Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language by William A. Dembski
34 more
The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer by James Porter Moreland
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel
More Than a Theory: Revealing a Testable Model for Creation by Hugh Ross
The Revised & Expanded Answers Book: The 20 Most-Asked Questions About Creation, Evolution & the Book of Genesis Answere by Jonathan Sarfati
Refuting Evolution: A Response to the National Academy of Sciences' Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science by Jonathan D. Sarfati
Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
The Lie: Evolution by Ken Ham
Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Jonathan Wells
Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology by William A. Dembski
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer
Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home by Hugh Ross
The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God by Hugh Ross
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?: Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells
Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski
The New Answers Book 2 by Ken Ham
Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science by John C. Lennox
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design by Thomas Woodward
God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John C. Lennox
Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration by Paul Copan
Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils by Marvin L. Lubenow
Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology by R. C. Sproul
Creation As Science: A Testable Model Approach to End the Creation/Evolution Wars by Hugh Ross
The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski
Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job: How the Oldest Book of the Bible Answers Today's Scientific Questions by Hugh Ross
The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson
The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe
Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell by David Klinghoffer
Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off by Fazale Rana
Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? by C. John Collins
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes
Scientific Creationism. Public School Edition by Henry M. Morris

More

Amazon.comLibraryThing
Page: 0.1153 seconds