(October 6, 2012 at 12:43 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: Fair enough, they haven't made a larger organism, but these are pretty darn good steps towards it. Getting a synthetic DNA to replicate and make functioning proteins is amazing.
Indeed it is. Evolution does not concern itself with how life started. It would only be reasonable to assume that life started as extremely simple single-celled organisms, and then evolved into more complex things. Once life is created in its simplest form, evolution takes over. Scientists don't even need to create multicullular organisms to make this point.
Evolving bacteria:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...170216.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14...e-lab.html
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