[Interfector]

Scientists are only months away from creating artificial life, it was claimed yesterday.

Dr Craig Venter – one of the world’s most famous and controversial biologists – said his U.S. researchers have overcome one of the last big hurdles to making a synthetic organism.

The first artificial lifeform is likely to be a simple man-made bacterium that proves that the technology can work.

But it will be followed by more complex bacteria that turn coal into cleaner natural gas, or algae that can soak up carbon dioxide and convert it into fuels.

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[SeaGypsy]

They are NOT making life, they are tinkering with it.
A Guru once said "I will give everything I have and renounce everything I have learned to the scientist who can create life from mere elements."
Life always comes from life; without the initial living structural inputs these guys would have nothing alive.
Just fancy high tech flower breeding science, thousands of years old.

[TheAntiDoomer]

Life always comes from life; without the initial living structural inputs these guys would have nothing alive.

Not in the beginning, Life had to start from inorganic materials orginally. These guys are just learing how to manipulate those original conditions that created life on earth.

[SeaGypsy]

Life always comes from life; without the initial living structural inputs these guys would have nothing alive.

Not in the beginning, Life had to start from inorganic materials orginally. These guys are just learing how to manipulate those original conditions that created life on earth.

Can you prove that? There is plenty of evidence life here was seeded from other worlds and none that it arose spontaneously.

[vision-master]

Life always comes from life; without the initial living structural inputs these guys would have nothing alive.

Not in the beginning, Life had to start from inorganic materials orginally. These guys are just learing how to manipulate those original conditions that created life on earth.

1st we learn from the tree of knowledge and now the tree of life. We ain't even close. Modern religion = today's science. Science without knowing the tree of life. Science without regards to our origins. Empty science, the science of money and materialism. Godless science.................

[PrestonSturges]

Venter is one of the few people that the press literally calls a "narcissist."

Laymen are overwhelmed by his narcissistic "charisma," Scientists regard him as generally competent but his reputation as an innovator is vastly overblown.

His version of the human genome did not amount to much, he was completely subordinate to the executives at Applied Biosystems, and he did not even make much money off it.

[Carlhole]

They are NOT making life, they are tinkering with it.
A Guru once said "I will give everything I have and renounce everything I have learned to the scientist who can create life from mere elements."
Life always comes from life; without the initial living structural inputs these guys would have nothing alive. Just fancy high tech flower breeding science, thousands of years old.

The Venter team is starting small, working to construct a simpler version of the bacteria known as Mycoplasma genitalium, a common resident of the human reproductive tract. They hope to determine the minimum number of genes required to breathe life into an organism...

...But even if the team can assemble all of the bug’s 500,000 DNA chemicals (roughly 35,000 has been the record so far), no one knows if the organism will be viable. Will simply synthesizing a chemical sequence spark life?

“Nobody has ever done it before so absolutely it is a key hurdle,” Dr. Venter said.

It doesn't look like this particular hurdle is going to withstand Synthetic Genomics onslaught.

And then they will be on to designing virtual bugs so that they can fool around with the genome more easily, getting it just right before producing what ever hard copy is needed for whatever application.

[heroineworshipper]

No. Lithium air is the answer to the world's energy problem. Didn't U get the memo?