We can put a man in the moon yet technology has been unable to create even a single baby. Something that even two of the dumbest high schoolers you can find can easily do.
Except we can perform nuclear fusion which is the essence of a star, it's just without gravity giving us a hand it takes too much electricity right now to do it at a large scale.
By contrast, science can make synthetic insulin for example.
> By contrast, science can make synthetic insulin for example.
Can it? Afaik all insulin is completely organic in nature. We still fully rely on existing life to create insulin. Not to dissimilar from IVF actually.
> IVF still relies on the human reproductive machinery to produce the gametes and gestate the baby. You’re still using human reproductive machinery to do 99% of the work.
Right and with insulin the bacterium performs 99.9% of the work. Yet, there you don't have a problem of calling it technology. So that's why I asked the very clear question. What is the threshold for you?
If you’ve written software, you know that bug-compatible replications can take longer than the original for sufficiently complex original.