(May 21, 2010 at 4:48 am)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: What's important is that people don't think or use this information to suggest that an organism has been created entirely from scratch when at most they created a functional, distinct genome out of short strands of DNA.
Unfortunately, THAT is precicely what the uneducated are going to think and the theists are going to react to.
(May 21, 2010 at 4:48 am)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: If you are reading that they indeed created the DNA that makes up the genome from scratch, which I have no problem with, then even better (then we should know the conditions that are required to create DNA strands in nature or at least be closer to understanding how nature could produce DNA strands),
This is reason for my excitement with this 'discovery'
(May 21, 2010 at 4:48 am)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: but the media is still exaggerating on what has actually been created thus potentially confusing a lot of people.
See above. "The Media" get overly excited about anything. But then they ARE a good barometer to the reactions of the 'fundie' mindset
All Kudos to Chris and his team.
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