(October 13, 2013 at 7:06 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: If a team of scientists in a lab were able to (deliberately) replicate life from non-life, the intelligent design folks would be cheering!!!Why would they cheer? If an iron-clad version of Miller-Urey were to be accomplished, it would flatten them.
And we ARE very close to this- Craig Venter & co (among others) constructed a minimal (mostly) synthetic genome and are fairly close to getting it to work in a living minimal cell. Synthetic biology is a hopping field.