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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on August 29, 2013.

I'm Steve Murski.

On this episode, we finish up our conversation with Adam Rutherford about his new book,

Creation, how science is reinventing life itself.

In part one, we talked about efforts to understand how life first came into being on Earth.

Next, we talked about efforts to design how life first came into being on Earth. Next, we talked about efforts to design and even create new forms of life.

We spoke by phone on July 25th.

Let's talk about the second part of the book.

If the first part of the book disturbs some people,

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