<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It's significant because for the first time humans have complete control over every single nucleotide of an organism's DNA. I don't count viruses as organisms.<div><br></div><div>And welcome back Zero Powers!</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div>===============</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 20, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5/20/2010 5:34 PM, Zero Powers wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Last night, in a dramatic<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God,<br></blockquote><br>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).<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>