WHILE INTELLIGENT DESIGN IS DEMONSTRATED EVERY DAY... (via Brian Boys):

Team claims synthetic life feat (Neil Bowdler, 6/28/07, BBC)

Scientists in the US say they have taken a major step towards producing life from scratch in the laboratory.

Dr Craig Venter says in the Science journal that his team successfully transplanted an entire genome from one bacterium cell to another.

He says he hopes eventually to use the technique to create designer microbes, which could produce artificial fuel or help clean up toxic waste. [...]

The ultimate plan is to throw artificially produced chromosomes, proteins and other building blocks into a primordial soup and watch as a primitive microbe sparks spontaneously into life.

...the world still awaits a single demonstration of Darwinism in action.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 1, 2007 12:53 AM