[ExI] Holy Schlamoley! Venter's team creates synthetic life!

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Thu May 20 22:54:06 UTC 2010


On 5/20/2010 5:34 PM, Zero Powers wrote:

> Last night, in a dramatic
> announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God,

Actually he *was* only playing god, because his team just copied an 
existing genome (other than a few tweaks and unintentional mutations). 
Weakly godlike at best (as Charlie Stross might put it).

Damien Broderick



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