It's the livejournal that thinks it's a blog http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-11-13-new-life-usat_x.htm "But the questions ethicists have raised about such work are numerous: Should we be playing God?" Playing God? As if producing a living thing is something so unknowably powerful that to do so is to subscribe to ultimate hubris? No. There is nothing in a living creature that breaks the laws of physics. A brain contains no special cells or particles which do not behave as an identical molecular environments would cause them to, outside a living being. A life is an incredibly chaotic system, but it is a system. Making an organism only requires the right atoms in the right places. No divine spark, no holy inscriptions. The belief that a life (your life) is somehow rooted beyond the material realm is hubris. Maybe, moby, we are all made of stars, but nothing more.
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