October 09, 2007
It's Alive! Aiiiiive!!!
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
MuwHAhahahaaaaa!!!
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O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! O brave new world!
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The team of scientists has already successfully transplanted the genome of one type of bacterium into the cell of another, effectively changing the cell's species. Technically, then, he's not creating life so much as creating a new form of it. He's a mere Frankenstein at this point, then, right? Call me when he makes amoebas out of dead car batteries. Only then will I go back to Church.
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Or when he makes car batteries out of dead amoebas.
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This guy seems to have a certain attitude that makes me somewhat skeptical of what he's claiming. I'm wondering what other scientists have to say on this. TUM, I don't believe the book from whence that quote came ended well...
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Will they have souls, do you think? I think they will.
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Whew.
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Bah. There are simpler ways to create new life.
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That's not how you make an homunculus. You gotta use some of your own semen. Or otter bile. I forget which.
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The little Ugum infant is a homunculus.
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TUM: Awesome! You get a free bottle! I better get to work...
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The little Ugum infant is a homunculus. Ugette? Umgette? Smlugum?
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Homungagum!
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Venter creates spiraling coils of self-replicating DNA.
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President Obama’s Bioethics Commission: Policy without Philosophy?
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"If this commission ignores fundamental philosophical and anthropological matters, it cannot judge the extent to which new technologies will be “beneficial” beyond basic considerations of health and profit." But is it ART?