When I get to the point in my Alchemy game that you can create life, I'm going to make a snide remark or two: The machine to perform the task will, first of all, be called "FLOP-o-Matic". FLOP stands for Frustrate Laws of Physics. And the note will be: "Requires one Contradictory Condition(TM), one Hostile-for-Life Condition(TM), and one Artificial Condition(TM). I'm still working on that last one.