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order to make these blanket statements, scientists would need to demonstrate that they indeed know all there is to know about all DNA and WHY it's the way it is. They're presuming they know more than an intelligent designer capable of creating an entire universe and the life in it. A bit presumptuous.

The same statement was made about chemistry a century ago. It was though that no chemical produced by a living thing could be prepared in a laboratory. They though organic chemicals could only be produced by living things and it would be impossible for man to create in a test tube what God has living organisms doing as part of His creation. When urea was artificially synthesized, that broke that paradym of thinking. As for DNA, it's chemistry is very, very well understood. We can synthesize DNA in the lab. We have also made DNA analogues using different building blocks than deoxyribonucleic acids. I know a synthetic chemist that made a DNA analog where the phosphate groups were substituted with siloxane groups and that was over 12 years ago. There is no mystery behind the fundamental chemistry of DNA. That's well established chemistry.

Interesting perspective.

W/o losing the bio-ethics angle, methinks this new direction of tech needs the GOTUS' full backing. This century could well be a biotech century and for the US to keep its lead in science as it has done for much of the XX century, time to wholeheartedly embrace biotech.