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To: mgstarr

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


6 posted on 05/20/2010 10:44:13 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Sorry, but this is not creation. Taking parts and reassembling them isn’t exactly anything new.

You can argue about the sensationalist words used by the "journalists", but that doesn't change that fact that this is an incredible accomplishment that's never been done before.

Perhaps a better words would be genetic engineering. One species of bacteria was turned into another species of bacteria in the process. This shows that it possible to create DNA from scratch using custom code.

36 posted on 05/20/2010 11:52:31 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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