"Oh, Happy Day!" (oops, sorry NG, for that culturally insensitive, religions musical reference)
Unfortunately, they let some "soon to be dismissed" staff writer slip into the headline a bit of religious terminology, i.e. "Synthetic DNA Created, Evolves on Its Own."
Keep plugging away, NG. Or, as Douglas Adams said, "Keep banging the rocks together!"
So, how did Nat Geo write God out of the picture when it comes to Quarks, Hadrons, Fermions, Physics, Chemistry?