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From: muttiah@cs.purdue.EDU (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Creating life
Keywords: Life
Message-ID: <8525@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 89 16:52:14 GMT
References: <2461@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <8523@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <762@uwm.edu>
Reply-To: muttiah@cs.purdue.edu (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah)
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In article <762@uwm.edu> stevelee@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Just Another Steve (but not dave)) writes:
>In article <8523@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> muttiah@cs.purdue.edu (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah) writes:
>>
>>Why bother ?  There is enough of it around already.
>
>	Because it's a challenge.  It's something that's never been done.
>	And it's something that will be done (so sayeth I) within the next
>	two decades.
>




Wouldn't it be more a challenge to _document_ all the existing life forms ?
Let's face it. We only know of 40-50 % of the species that exist let alone
document them in detail.  What happens to the rest. Do we care ?  Are
_we_ the environment now ?