Playing God

Man from clay was pretty impressive, God- a very neat trick, really. For all of our earthly attempts to unseat Your miracles with our scientifical magicks- be it bioengineering, robotics, cloning and AI- none of them quite come close to the divine alchemy inherent in that leap.

Well unless you look at this: Engineered RNA, made sans biological processes and supposedly immortal- as long as it's environment can provide the materials, it'll replicate indefinitely.

“The aim is to create systems that have inventive capabilities, that can develop novel solutions to challenges posed by the environment. But that we don’t have yet,” he said

“What we do have is a self-sustained chemical system that undergoes Darwinian evolution."

 Sounds pretty keen to me.

via Slashdot: "Life-like evolution in a test-tube"