Originally Posted by TheDoc

BERKELEY, Calif. - They're called "synthetic biologists" and they boldly claim the ability to make never-before-seen living things, one genetic molecule at a time.

They're mixing, matching and stacking DNA's chemical components like microscopic Lego blocks in an effort to make biologically based computers, medicines and alternative energy sources. The rapidly expanding field is confounding the taxonomists' centuries-old system of classifying species and raising concerns about the new technology's potential for misuse.
Though scientists have been combining the genetic material of two species for 30 years now, their work has remained relatively simplistic.

Do you understand what you read? They created life... at the micro level. Just because they can't create a sperm and and egg, doesn't mean they can't create the spark of life that produces it's own energy.

That was your point... and it's wrong and this isn't the only time it's been done.