Can we create new life?

The metric that decides that we have done so if we take the inert and inanimate items and then create a living genome which can reproduce itself.

Undergraduate students at John Hopkins University, Build a Genome Course, have created a yeast chromosome from scratch.

It is reported that it thrives just as well  as regular yeast did in terms of size and growth.

In 2010  the J. Craig Venter Institute had built a bacterium genome.

Question:
After the bacterium and now the yeast, maybe next the fruit fly, and then the worm and . . . what next?

Lesson:
I suggest finally it will be man - a better man - in every way better than the defective specimen that we are - who amidst our many flaws - the worst is our constant intra specific warring and killing in an endless chain of wars that stretch back in time in an endless bloody mess and continues today and will continue war chaining on and on into the future..