What Would Nietzsche Do?

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Conceptual "artist" to genetically engineer "god:"

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/08-16-2004/0002232798&EDATE=

From the story:

After looking at a broad range of species, Keats came to believe that God
is genetically most closely related to blue-green algae (or cyanobacteria, as
it's known scientifically). Numerous considerations led to this hypothesis,
not least of which was that cyanobacteria is the first organism found in the
fossil record. If God came first, Keats reasoned, said deity would be most
closely related to whichever species came second.
Keats acquired a clonal strain of the cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon
from the University of San Francisco, where biochemist John Cobley, Ph.D. was
pursuing unrelated research on the organism. Then it was a simple matter of
mutating it. "I figured that God thrives on worship. So I prepared four
petri dishes, and then, for seven days and nights, exposed three of them to
pre-recorded prayer, Jewish, Christian and Muslim, while the fourth served as
a control." (His control group was raised exclusively on talk radio.)