Man plays God

An interesting story popped up in the news today:
Creating first synthetic lifeform

Which goes on to talk about how some scientists (after decoding the human genome), are now taking the step to take what they've learned and try to create a totally new species.

Personally... even though this seems a bit "out there", I'm not sure I see anything morally or ethically wrong with it, but I DO see how it could be dangerous for us to be playing with something we don't fully understand.

My mind races to possibilities of accidentally creating some form of extreme predator that breeds quickly and feeds on humans. Perhaps even as small as bacteria... yum