Edit: just to add, I wouldn’t accept “we have not done it from scratch yet” as a valid argument that we cannot do better than natural selection, any more than I would accept ”$person has not yet fabricated a CPU” as an argument that $person can’t code better than at least one professional CPU designer.
Irrelevant. I thought that would’ve been clear from me using the comparison as an example of a bad argument.
Also, not even correct, assuming I have been correctly informed that simulated evolution is used for some optimisations of e.g. precise physical transistor placement.
(1) http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/minimal-cell/overv...
(2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_virology
(3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeno_nucleic_acid
Edit: just to add, I wouldn’t accept “we have not done it from scratch yet” as a valid argument that we cannot do better than natural selection, any more than I would accept ”$person has not yet fabricated a CPU” as an argument that $person can’t code better than at least one professional CPU designer.