Re Venter's attempts to make "synthetic life"AVID: He has not made life from 'scratch'. He used parts created by life!-http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23266-craig-venter-close-to-creating-synthetic-li...-As he has always done. Even if he succeeds, he will have provided no evidence in the case of Chance v. Design, since he is a conscious scientist working intelligently ... not a wind in a scrapyard.