Let me see if I've got this straight.
Once man uses his intelligence to design life from inorganic material you will have ruled out intelligent design as a possible cause of life?
Once they've managed to construct an artificial organism by assembling chemical units, only the most obstinate will continue to argue against the possibility.Let me see if I've got this straight.
Once man uses his intelligence to design life from inorganic material you will have ruled out intelligent design as a possible cause of life?
No, that wasn't quite my point. The idea is this: ID'ers and others maintain that there is a fundamental difference between non-living and living things (there seems to me to be a strong vitalistic strain behind much creationist/intelligent design rhetoric). If humans can turn non-living chemicals into living organisms, it will no longer be possible to maintain that the difference between non-living and living things is fundamental.
I would argue that the only reason that humans would be required nowadays to turn non-living chemicals into living organisms is that current environmental conditions aren't conducive to this development on Earth and, in addition, we don't have millions of years to wait for it to happen.