Well, it seems to me that a large portion of what has been accepted as true and abslolute and tangiable has been shaken or at least qu estioned down to it’s foundations.
I’ve chatted with a biochemist who crows everytime a single particle of the compounds that make up RNA are created artificially in a experiment.
I tell him he is a chemist of immense faith.
In a sense, then, we are back to “God works in mysterious ways”.
It’s one thing if a biochemist with all his equipment and chemicals and glassware can produce something.
But what if?
What if?
What if matter and atoms and light and gravity have some kind of force in them from God that makes life happen?
Part of what I study is language and communications because I work with computers.
I can tell you, there is no reason - NO SCIENTIFIC REASON - that if I were to say “Throw the banana at the microwave” that you would know what I mean.
You are a bunch of atoms. Made up of atoms.
So why exactly do a bunch of random atoms (sorry, no offense), combine themselves in a way that they can give a crap about bananas or microwave ovens?
It is hughly interesting. It is something beyond the realm of physics and science as we know it.
Artificially creating in the lab a particle of the compounds that make up RNA in no way supports any of their contention that it happened that way in nature, nor does it demonstrate in any way that they are right about how it happened.
It doesn't demonstrate that creationists are wrong, or that the Bible is inaccurate about how God did it, because other than saying that He spoke and it happened, it doesn't give the mechanism.
All it shows is that they are able to create a particle in the lab.