Detecting design or intent in nature

[Angrboda]

M. laboratorium is a biological organism altered and replicated by artificial means. It is a part of biological evolution, not of Heywood systems. They wouldn't have been able to do it without the design from nature.

I'll take it that you reject Chas's definition that biological evolution requires reproduction? The first Mycoplasma Laboratorium did not come into existence via reproduction but was replicated much like a car is replicated. If you accepted Chas's definition you cannot then claim it is part of the same biological evolutionary system which is responsible for us.

I'll respond to the rest of your post later....short on time these days.

My mistake. Venter group did not artificially replicate a bacterium, only the genome. They "transplanted the synthesized genome into the existing cell of a Mycoplasma capricolum bacterium that had had its DNA removed."