[Raven]

Sometimes scientists destroy their work. It truly depends on the scientist. I would never destroy my work. But I would prevent it from entering the hands of the irresponsible;i.e. humanity; if I believed it was far to destructive to exist.

I was also under the impression that Venter was actually creating an organism from scratch. As the organism is supposed to only have approximately 300 genes. If I am in fact wrong, than I am rather disappointed in Venter. While I do agree that Venter is a self-promoter and far from the level of intelligence that many would probably give him credit for. But I also recognize an imagination, and an ability to assemble a team with exceptional abilities at achieving his goals.