Of course, nature has no purpose, no thinking capacity, and no recognizable reason or capacity for “yawning”, but in the minds of the Ped-Protectors in the Vatican, who see fit to “warn” scientists not to “play” what they refer to as “God”. (A non-existent turf SOME of them would actually defend to the death…given the slightest opportunity, most of them would bolt for even RANCID meat like hyenas).

This is definitely a fantastic accomplishment, no doubt. I’m just astonished it took this long to accomplish it.

Now, I fervently look forward to ordering up a deliciously thick and juicy “steak”, complete with complex muscle-like tissue invested with everything from lymph to blood vessels, well marbled by fat, derived from an appropriately flavorful complex of multiplying cells WITHOUT those parts that typically must attend such fare today, which I do NOT require to eat, but if I did nevertheless requires the slaughtering and suffering of a sentient animal. And I’ll savor it with spices and with gravy and dumplings etc…and never EVER have to argue with a religious or vegger imbecile again as I savor the juices of myriad proteins and fat I need not ever again attribute to the death of anything more than artificially contrived tissue utterly unassociated with anything attached to the salient reason for suffering.

Or does the Pope think it ungodly to relieve suffering whenever possible? Or do humans (especially Christian humans) have a monopoly on the horrors of suffering too?

(Pardon me as I pause to slurp up the rest of a delectablly MEATY dish…flavored with mushrooms and sage).

The Pope, his poppets, and their fantasy faith are an absolute and consummate disgrace to human civilization for imagining that this could lead to a tradition of “playing God”. What, after all, have THOSE bastards PRIMARILY ALWAYS been up to for the last 2000 years? Playing Penocle?

However, they need not fear that I selectively pick on them unfairly: I firmly believe that their schtick is entirely equivalent to every other ridiculous excuse of a world view based on supernatural premises…even if the Roman Catholic authorities do happen to have an excessive penchant for protecting their interest in pedophilia while simultaneously exercising an astonishing audacity in continuing to dictate graceful and virtuous behavior in others, in particular, “WARNING” scientists not to play God.

And, while I have far more patience and sympathy reserved for my vegetarian friends (me being one of them as conditions reasonably permit) they may find solace in a future where they can finally put their smirks away, retire their superior attitude, shut the hell up without ever having to wreck another person’s meal, and enjoy some enormously tasty food (for a change) invested with some forms of nutrition rumored to be capable of actually improving their powers of thinking – with the full knowledge that not a single complex nervous system ever needed to suffer the experience of death.

I’ve long been a Venter fan, finding his fully justified arrogance highly entertaining. It’s a great business story as well as a scientific one. And Steve Jobs will never pull a “one more thing” like the Mycoplasma genitalium genome.