At the risk of dragging this out, what religious reason is there to believe that these experiments will fail? I'm no expert, but I don't know of anything in the Bible that says life can't be created by science -- especially microbes. My understanding is that most fundamentalists don't believe animals have souls anyway.

The funny thing is, I was going to disagree with Charlie, as I didn't think Christianity would tremble over this. It may very well be a bumpy road for some people.