Bible beats scientists to another 'discovery' - Life may have arisen from clay, just as scripture says

Professors from Cornell University in the United States think life could have arisen from clay following a study in which they observed that clay hydrogels could serve as a habitat for the development of primitive life.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A Cornell University study has revealed, more or less by accident, that clay hydrogels could provide the perfect environment for primitive life on Earth.

A clay hydrogel is essentially a fancy way of saying mud, although of a particular type and consistency-in this case, wet clay.

Researchers were trying to find better ways to produce complex proteins for drug manufacturing when they realized the conditions found in clay hydrogels were quite good for biomolecules and biochemical reactions. In other words, in their finding, the building blocks of life might more easily assemble within clay.

The scientific discovery would likely be shelved, only of interest to biologists, except for the fact that virtually every major world religion, including Christianity, Islam, as well as Greek, Chinese and Egyptian mythology all say that life was created from clay.

Science is "discovering" what the faithful already know:  "then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being," (Genesis 2:7).

In several other passages, God is referred to as a "potter" and life is fashioned out of clay.

Evolutionary biologists believe that all life on Earth began in microbial form with simple molecules combining with others and acquiring the ability to replicate. Although the process sounds complex, it is actually fairly simple-in theory. Once molecules are able to replicate, it becomes a matter of increasing complexity until eventually you arrive at humans.

Creationists will simply point to the fact that God created man whole, fashioning him from dust.

No matter the case, the Cornell study provides a curious crossing between the two ideas. We cannot place creative limits on God, and He may create as He wishes. Be it a wholly formed man from dust, or evolved from microbes, the detail matters little.

It should also be noted that science, in all its knowledge, still cannot create life from non-life, no matter how much clay there is in the lab. 

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