Scientists take step to making synthetic life
Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.
They intend to use their technique to custom-design bacteria to perform functions such as producing artificial fuel or cleaning up toxic waste, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
Scientists are ALWAYS "takong a first step" towards creating synthetic life. This is an off-the-shelf mass media narrative. But somehow, they never quite manage to take that second and succeeding steps and actually CREATE synthetic life. That is because they do not -- because coming from a perspective of scietism or materialistic dogmatism they cannot -- realize what life actually IS.
ReplyDeleteI am willing to be anyone that true "synthetic life" is not going to be created within the next 20 years at any rate, for just this reason.
--WMB as Anon