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Also, wouldn't speeding up the process indefinitely ruin or tamper the results of the experiment thus wasting all the time, money and effort? Perhaps there are stages that cannot be rushed and would require more years than we have available and would be spoiled by a chemical reactant or whatever the case may be. My theory is life is energy. Based on the conservation of energy, energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Therefore, it can only be altered as one form or another. Life itself, being composed of cells, is constantly changing, growing, developing into something bigger such as tissues, organs, organisms. All being passed on from one form to another. It cannot be created. But what like Dusty said, the real question is: where did it come from and how did it get passed down onto us?