>They used 4 different strands of pre-existing DNA to do this. They did not create the “life” from scratch. What a huge misrepresentation.
Yes and no. They certainly didn’t make up a custom soup from scratch and have it come to life. However they did make a life form with a custom set of DNA. That has huge implications in terms of being able to customize life forms. If it does enable the creation of organisms which cook up petrochemicals just using water and CO2, then the whole issue of fuel independence is solved.
Until some escape into the ocean. Then the race becomes finding a way to kill them off!
GMO Pharming creates new DNA strands every day, big whoop, they didn’t create anything at all, they used existing parts, what a bunch of dopes, it’s sad too to see so many freepers falling for this kind of junk science tripe ...