It is sacrilege. Tiny Chinese mechanical birds are called automata. Cellular automata are artificial life forms. Simulacra made of stucco is not automata even though a response to it might be automatic. Automata capture the real and let it go, like a small bird caught in your hand.
Production is necessary.
We may even produce ourselves. We may even watch as there are no more birds, but tiny mechanical ones kept under jars or in wonder chambers. Clones are simulacra. God is in the mechanical. The simulacra is in the chemistry.