'Venter’s team did something very intelligent that required a lot of creative design, but they did not create life. What they have done is to interpret genetic information already present in a bacterialchromosome, and using their understanding of DNA language they have assembled a new chromosome. However, in order to complete the chromosome assembly they had to make use of already existing yeast cells. Furthermore, the genetic information on the newly made chromosome has made new cells by using the already existing cellular machinery of the pre-existing recipient cells. This experiment reminds us that the real key to the creation of life is not the chemicals DNA is made from, but the externally designed information encoded onto the DNA chemicals as well as the existence of DNA readers, cells to protect the process and a fluid environment that is friendly to the process. Without these the DNA sequence is not life at all. The information used in this case as in all known cases is the productof a pre-existing mind, and using it required creative design and clever chemical engineering.'Evidence News 04/10 – 26th May 2010AD
