The creation of a "synthetic organism" and its athestic association.

This is a top story of the year, and certainly for atheists, the main one being the main innovator of this. Craig Venter the millionaire, an outspoken atheist, had indeed created a synthetic organism, a type of algae, that while definitely beneficial and productive, is used to advance the atheist viewpoint against the idea of the divinity of all life, and its inability to be created from human intervention. Here is an article detailing this to get some of you up to date....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-form

My point is rather simple, that this isn't quite the atheist accomplishment it is hyped up to be, and that it definitely does not disprove a higher intelligence. My evidence is rather simple as well, and that is: The organism is NOT completely synthetic. Perhaps the DNA was created from synthetic chemical, BUT it was truly put to work and life by its introduction into the body of a naturally occurring and similar bacteria. I truly think the implications were way over blown because of this, and that it truly is shameful to make your work that may benefit humanity AND the natural world, also a matter of a rather futile debate between spirituality and atheism.

 

I don't really see what this has to do with atheism ultimately. Life arose through natural processes. Organisms are not immutable creations. Whether you want to claim that those processes were made possible by a god or not doesn't really matter, as long as you accept the fact that organisms came to be through the natural interactions of chemicals and not through the direct intervention of some being.

 

Don't see what it has to do with atheism, but none the less, I don't see them misrepersenting it... It's quite unprecedented, what they did.

I WOULD see it as very important that careful safeguards are built into engineered life, things that would make it easy to kill without harming other things, or prevent it's wild existance by way of synthetic nutrients with no substitutes, or something like that. Otherwise, it could become a raging nightmare of an invasive species.....

 

synthetic orgasm .. is how I read this.