I thought God created life from mud. He molded mud to create Adam and used Adam's rib to create women. How is that creating anything from nothing? Men were created from mud. Women from men.
God created the mud. A favorite verse for your Sunday morning enjoyment, from Psalm 139, which is about our creation:
(vs 15)
“My frame was(bones were) not hidden from Thee,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.”
Notice this is not the womb—but the earth. God knows the location of every little electron, neutron and proton that makes us up. cool, eh?
Back to the article:
“One idea is the creation of organisms that could soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into hydrocarbon biofuels. In this way, synthetic life forms could play a major role in helping in the battle against global warming, it is claimed.”
Great—then the plants will have no source of energy for photosynthesis. They are quite capable of ingesting more than we are presently producing.
No, “mud” is not “nothing” - it is mud. I mean start from “nothing” in the sense that before there was creation. THAT is nothing.