“The new discipline, established by scientists such as human genome pioneer Craig Venter, involves stripping microbes down to their basic genetic constituents so they can be reassembled and manipulated to create new life forms.”
No fair - they need to start with nothing. Kinda’ like what God did.
I thought God created life from mud. He molded mud to create Adam and used Adam's rib to create women. How is that creating anything from nothing? Men were created from mud. Women from men.