This work could lead to staggering findings in two major ways. First, cells with synthetic genomes could allow scientists to essentially snip out the complexities of living cells leaving only the simpler parts. This would give researchers a better way to untangle the enormously complicated interactions that occur in natural cells, and could help unravel the secrets of baffling diseases like cancer.
Second, while cells with synthetic genomes couldn't be used to recreated extinct creatures, they could be used to create organisms that have the genes of extinct organisms, possibly even those of Earth's earliest life forms. This could lead to a better understanding of the very nature of life and how life began, scientists say.
Hm...very interesting indeed! However, we would then still have the question, "How did life begin?" A synthetically made bacteria or organism will not tell us where life began. In fact, it would simply mean that the men who created such a thing would be the maker of that particular organism. And even if they were to design a synthetic organism that is less complex as a natural organism, they still would not be able to account for the origins of life.
Now we know that most of the people that working on this are no doubt evolutionists. They have studied and studied different theories of how life began. Some have said that there was a great explosion in space that caused an organism in some primordial goo to come into existence. Some have believed that all live forms began when lightening struck some crystals on a hillside. Some others believed that everything simply has evolved into what it is today and that evolution itself is still happening even before our very eyes.
Well, Mr. Venter, let me suggest to you that the answer to the question, "How did life begin?" is not as complicated as you and others are making it out to seem. Now I understand what you might be thinking: "This guy is a nut job! He's not even credentialed as a scientist." Well, as the old adage goes, "This isn't rocket science!"
The answer is this: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light...And God said, 'Let there be an expanse int he midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from he waters"...And God said, 'Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear'...And God said, 'Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth'...And God say, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night'...And God said, 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens'...And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures according tot heir kinds - livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds'...Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let the have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'" (Genesis 1:1-31)
