Go Get Your Own DNA!

Well, I woke up yesterday morning to news headlines on television (and then seeing many of the same claims in newspaper and web reports) that scientists had supposedly made some sort of life in a laboratory.  For instance, Science News blarred that the scientists used "a made-from-scratch  genome," which was not made "from scratch" at all—the reporter gives a false impression as to what really happened.

Going back a couple of years, in February 2008, AiG commented on this same sort of...