Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
but it was NOT what you claimed it was when you posted this..

in truth, they weren't even close to that......it's like taking a lego car and changing it slightly by moving a few blocks, then claiming you invented the automobile.....
I think it is now a matter of semantics and you are not giving enough credit. Again you like to reduce incredibly complex achievements with a 3rd grade figure of speech. If you take a dead human, replace it's genome and reboot it successfully, I'd say you created life.

"This is the first synthetic cell that's been made, and we call it synthetic because the cell is totally derived from a synthetic chromosome, made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information in a computer,"
We are creating the legos, not rearranging them. Rearranging would make a different genome.

If you're only willing to accept us creating life by using RNA and amino acids and having it turn into a rhino, well, that will take some time, but we are at the entrance of that possibility.