Work on this is in progress, and I predict within the next two centuries, it will be public scientific knowledge, how to mix which chemicals to synthesize some sort of living cell in a lab.

This is why it is so important to emphasize all aspects of philosophy/religion to students, as 12th man said "put it all on the table" and let them become free thinkers in all realms, not only science. If there is no ethical base, the world as we know it will quickly become what none of us want.

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