Your Gods Are...With All Due Respect...Pathetic

Biologists have constructed a usable genome and inserted it into a genome-less bag on potential cellular activity.

And it reproduced.

All the gods of humanity weep, for we are closer to needing them less.

Who was closer to the truth: the religious who believed that lightning was the arrows of Zeus or the philosopher who honestly acknowledged that lightning was inexplicable?

Gods explain nothing, but they excuse every kind of debase human psychology and behavior. Can we, as a species, self-actualize just long enough to stop our self-destruction?