PZ MYERS
(Biologist, University of Minnesota; blogger, Pharyngula)

"...is Venter's technological tour de force a threat to humanity, another atom bomb in the hands of children?

No"

"...to worry over a development that is far less immediately dangerous than, say, site-directed mutagenesis, is to have misplaced priorities and to be basically recoiling from the progress of science."

http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge319.html

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler