Furthermore, he said, suppose that you could create life. Then suddenly you would be involved in something a lot bigger than some technical definition of living versus nonliving. Very quickly, in fact, you would find yourself engaged in a kind of empirical theology. Having created a living creature, for example, would you then have the right to demand that it worship you and make sacrifices to you? Would you have the right to act as its god? Would you have the right to destroy it if it didn’t behave the way you wanted it to?
