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During all recorded human history, there has never been a substantiated case of a living thing being produced from anything other than another living thing.
How about the artificial creation of a bacteriophage? I know that viruses do not technically satisfy all of the requirements of life, but once put into a bacterium, the bacteriophage began to replicate. I'll get the site information for you in a bit...
http://www.usatoday.com/...ce/2003-11-13-new-life-usat_x.htm
(Web address added by edit)
[This message has been edited by hitchy, 04-06-2004]