Synthetic Life Shows the Impossibility of Abiogenesis

[Mr.Right]

Dr Craig Venter made the news last week in a big way. As The Guardian put it:

Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form.

It’s an amazing feat of biotechnology, and the process he and his team produced might result in some incredible applications down the road. What I find interesting about the process, however, is how well it illustrates that life simply cannot come about as the result of random chemical reactions guided by some sort of selection process. In other words, this stunning achievement really demonstrates the impossibility of abiogenesis.
Synthetic Life Shows the Impossibility of Abiogenesis Proslogion

 

[Hollie]

Dr Craig Venter made the news last week in a big way. As The Guardian put it:

Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form.

It’s an amazing feat of biotechnology, and the process he and his team produced might result in some incredible applications down the road. What I find interesting about the process, however, is how well it illustrates that life simply cannot come about as the result of random chemical reactions guided by some sort of selection process. In other words, this stunning achievement really demonstrates the impossibility of abiogenesis.
Synthetic Life Shows the Impossibility of Abiogenesis Proslogion

You might want to read the comments section at the end of the blog post you linked to. The claim you're hoping to make is false and skewed, as is so much of the fundamentalist - religious extremist mindset.

 

[Porker]

Gee golly whillikers...maybe they've discovered a way to stop global warming before the earth goes flaming across the unknown at the speed of Hale-Bopp, picking up passengers at all the locations such as Heavens Gate. Yeah, that's the ticket. We can call the new, improved meteor...uh...Synthetic-Bopp.