[mainsail that]

“This is a step towards ... creation of living beings with capacities and natures that could never have naturally evolved.”

We will regret this one day

[The Sons of Liberty]

What happens if these “bacteria” escape. I doubt that we have any natural resistance to them.

[VRWCmember]

Did they create it, or did they fabricate it?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Sorry, but this is not creation. Taking parts and reassembling them isn’t exactly anything new.

[DocRock]

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[jessduntno]

Does it have a Hawaiian birth certificate?

[Safrguns]

Total bunk.... at some point they had to introduce the real thing.

Are they claiming to have created a DNA strand? or just that they animated some inert DNA?

[DallasDeb]

They are liars! They did not create a living organism from 4 bottles of chemicals. They added DNA to it. That’s cheating. Who invented the DNA?

[OldDeckHand]

They did not create a living organism. They inserted artificially created genetic material into a living cell - big, HUGE difference.

When scientist take some chemicals, swish it around in a beaker and pour it into a petri dish, where it then begins to grow, call me. Until then, no one has yet to create life.

[Snickering Hound]

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

File this under “What can possibly go wrong?”.

[wbarmy]

The researchers built up the synthetic genome of M mycoides, with its million chemical letters, by stitching together shorter stretches of DNA, each about 1,000 letters long. They then transferred the completed genome into the shell of another bacterium M capricolum whose own DNA had been removed.

They used 4 different strands of pre-existing DNA to do this. They did not create the "life" from scratch. What a huge misrepresentation.

[Joe Brower]

Here is another article on this.

If this is indeed true, then the long-range implications could shake our basic worldview. It is easy to see life as magic of a sort. This finding, if correct, means that Steven Weinberg's quip about life being "just a disease of matter" is correct. And that makes life, all life, us included, just "meat machines".

[Eepsy]

One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.

The scientist walked up to God and said, “God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don’t you just go on and get lost.”

God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well, how about this, let’s say we have a man making contest.” To which the scientist replied, “OK, great!”

But God added, “Now, we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.”

The scientist said, “Sure, no problem” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God just looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!”

[Lobsterback]

"Scientists have turned inanimate chemicals into a living organism."

Yeah, right, and I just turned my oatmeal into a hamburger.

But seriously, I just ain't buyin' it. Any number of things could corrupt or mess up their experiment.

[chesley]

I’ve been reading news releases about scientists creating life since the 60s, and it ain’t been so yet.

And even if they do do it, it was still created, not spontaneous.

I don’t know what that means in the larger scheme of things, but it wouldn’t hurt to keep it in mind.

[LearsFool]

“Created”?? Yeah, right.

When a scientist does that sort of “creating” with another scientist’s writings, it’s called “plagiarism”.

[Sloth]

The researchers built up the synthetic genome of M mycoides, with its million chemical letters, by stitching together shorter stretches of DNA, each about 1,000 letters long. They then transferred the completed genome into the shell of another bacterium M capricolum whose own DNA had been removed.

Wow. So the gist of this article is just a plain old lie.

[r9etb]

Intelligent design. But remember: it’s not science.

[behzinlea]

“This is a step towards ... creation of living beings with capacities and natures that could never have naturally evolved.”

In short, intelligent design.

Don't tell Richard Dawkins.