ARTIFICIAL LIFE BY YEAR'S END?!
STA readers;
Graig Venter human genome mapper biologist is claiming that an artificially created organism will be successfully completed by year end that it will pave the way to better vacine production, biofuels, and toxic waste mitigation by new organisms far more modified than previous GMO creatures. You can read more here.
While this is exciting it is also very troubling as the capability to jigger the basic cellular design at will is getting closer to full design from clean sheet of paper for a totally new organism. When that happens the "Intelligent Design" Vs "Darwinist's" will be over. Once humans can create at will a complete design of an organism even a simple bacteria from "scratch", then we can no longer say that no existing organism is a totally random Darwin product because there is no way to conclusively show that none of the genetics were jiggered or "designed" by intelligent beings or agents who don't necessarily have to be Gods just have to be at least as capable as we are soon to become and hidden to history!
The irony here is that probably some even many of the very people doing this custom organism design work (intelligent designers no doubt) will be ardent Darwinist anti "Intelligent Design" believers! Won't they be suprised when they realize they have obviated their own argument for "Ran-dumb" mutational survival of the fittest.
I can't help but enjoy it a bit when arrogance is rewarded with
exposure and a large "DOH"! -pragnos
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- ARTIFICIAL LIFE BY YEAR'S END?! - pragnos, 2009-09-12, 18:54
