Scientists create life in a test tube

Dear readers,
Anybody who - even for a second - thought that scientist are able to make life has been completely fooled by this report.
I even doubt whether anyone has a clue what these "fools" did.1) They take virus X
2) they sequenced the information carrier of the virus
3) they synthesised the same informationcarrier (anyone with a pair of hands can make a strand of DNA/RNA nowadays)
4) they introduced this in a cell
5) the informationcarrier behaves like virus X.What is so remarkable about this all? It behaves like virus X. What did you expect? If they really designed a new virus from scratch that would be (bad) news. And not only for creationists!It demonstrates that:
1) intelligents is required to make a virus (!)
2) from a template (!)It tells me that:
1) people who write this stuff doesn't have a clue about life
2) some scientists have completely gone mad
3) it is propaganda to scare of the world (Look!...we can make a virus now!)I wish you a better world,
Peter

Gene,You state:
"All this demonstrates is that terrorists don't need direct access to some viruses to use them as a weapon"So, make it public and focus the attention of potential terrorists on the protocol how to build a virus?
Peter

You misinterpreted my reply. I'm a proponent of making public all scientific data, but it should be guarded. To present it in the media is the opposite. That is allerting them.
Peter