Living Things Out Of Non-living Things
I think the real gist of the question here is that until now, normally it’s living cells themselves that are only able to produce other living cells/beings and that until now we have been unable to synthesize anything living from scratch or in other words create what one might imagine as “synthetic artificial life”. I think what the brother is trying to say is that it seems that scientists are getting closer and closer to creating “artificial synthetic life” and that once they succeed in doing so that will mean that the life in a living thing will no longer be sacred as it is considered according to many if not all religions. Real question is how to reconcile faith in an age (maybe hypothetical) where we can synthetically create living things from scratch and without any intervention of any other living organisms.
Thanks for clarification on this whole issue!