Posted on 06/17/2007 6:37:25 PM PDT by Flavius
Craig Venter says success is near, but critics blast efforts to patent synthetic organisms
First he succeeded in reading humanity's genetic code. Now gene pioneer J. Craig Venter believes he is within weeks or months of creating the world's first free-living artificial organism in his laboratory. It won't be much to look ata tiny bacterium with only a few hundred genes. But if it's truly feasible, he says, "it will be one of the bright milestones in human history, changing our conceptual view of life."
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No more danger than in creating a sub-human being.
A bunch of chemicals looking like a person does not a human make. And .. where will the spirit and soul of the person come from ..?? a petrie dish ..??
You’re really talking about a robot that looks like a human but isn’t really a human. No thanks!
“misuse”
I believe humans were created by God .. but you don’t have to .. but don’t try to intimidate me into thinking what I believe is some sort of “horrendous misuse”.
A chemistry experiment does not have humanity. A person’s humanity comes from being born of humans .. not created in a petrie dish. This thing - whatever you call it - would have no parents. That’s totally out of God’s plan for humanity.
That sounds more like a “horrendous misuse” to me.
YOU SAID: “It sounds like if a “human” was built from scratch in a lab, you would not acknowledge it’s humanity. That mindset sounds ripe for some pretty horrendous misuse.”
To be a “human” you need to be born from a human .. not brewed in a lab. And .. that “mindset” does not preclude “horrendous misuse”.
Well .. I guess we have to agree to disagree!
Later!
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