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Venter is an atheist. Venter was 75 when he sold his main research facility, the J. Craig Venter Institute, to UCSD in 2022. He said he has no intention of retiring and would continue to lead a separate nonprofit research group, but he was recovering from a difficult bout with COVID-19 and was tired of management responsibilities.
- University of California, San Diego
- Biologist, Entrepreneur
- October 14, 1946 (age 76), Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
J. Craig Venter was born in Salt Lake City, Utah–the global center of Mormonism. His father was an excommunicated Mormon who had drank and smoked himself to death by the age of 59. As is the case with most scientists, Venter is an atheist. When asked by "60 Minutes" interviewer Steve Kroft if he believed in God, Venter quickly replied: No.
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Jun 4, 2012 · Wil S. Hylton, a contributing writer for the magazine, profiled the scientist Craig Venter for this week’s Innovation issue. He last wrote for the magazine about the state of U.S. biodefense preparations. How did you first hear about Craig Venter? I started hearing about Venter when people started hating him, in the mid-’90s.
Geneticists trimmed a bacterial genome but didn't prove intelligent design. Near the end of March, a team of researchers led by geneticist J. Craig Venter announced in the journal Science they’d ...
May 23, 2010 · Craig Venter is not playing God yet. Sun 23 May 2010 19.05 EDT. By inserting a synthetic strand of DNA into a living bacterium, Craig Venter's team has made an impressive technical advance with ...
Sep 18, 2023 · I consider retirement tantamount to death. I have my own research institute and an incredible team. Until we run out of interesting ideas, I want to keep going. Nature 621, 465-466 (2023) doi ...
May 21, 2010 · Your Daily Source of News & Videos on Science & Religion. Posted May 21, 2010 on TED Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA.
