Sometimes the phrase "Play God" reminds me of Elvis impersonators. It wont be long with the amount of memory expansion, they'll be able to feed chemical and genetic data into a program, and the program will read the dna in context, and show how it operates.There has to be a distinction between having the 'power' of god, and having a clue what to do with it.Sometimes the only way to know is to try it. Often an advance is neither better or worse, but the fact that it is change makes it seem unpleasant. One of the basic drives behind science, is the knowledge that through investigation, we might find something totally surprising, and need to come up with the rules as we go. If we advance we are...

Sometimes the phrase "Play God" reminds me of Elvis impersonators. It wont be long with the amount of memory expansion, they'll be able to feed chemical and genetic data into a program, and the program will read the dna in context, and show how it operates.There has to be a distinction between having the 'power' of god, and having a clue what to do with it.Sometimes the only way to know is to try it. Often an advance is neither better or worse, but the fact that it is change makes it seem unpleasant. One of the basic drives behind science, is the knowledge that through investigation, we might find something totally surprising, and need to come up with the rules as we go. If we advance we are going to see things we cannot imagine now. Sometimes we will have no trouble integrating a new discovery. Sometimes we might only suffer an education. If we ever stay still, we will fade away.