"Not quite sure what lie to which you refer. The report is quite hopen and honest about what it does and does not conclude."
Not saying it should be off limits to scientific pursuit. I don't think we are able to do it, that's all. Go on, keep trying. No skin off my nose.
There is a lot of hype about this issue. The media insist on implying that scientists can create life, have created it, are creating it, just one more test, and we can make superman from the ooze. Eugenics will be so much easier when we're god and create some life here. We can clean up all of God's mistakes. That's a lie designed to upset people who believe that creating life is the power of God alone.
As I keep repeating, it's a little thing by itself, but added to all the rest of the "news stories" that are designed to cause anger, fear, and confusion, it becomes a destructive force for our culture and our people.
Yes, I look like a stupid old fool for raising this issue because it's only one small thing, but if a lot of us had slapped stuff like this down during the past 30 years, we wouldn't be in the pickle we're in now. 'sall I'm saying.
Using Eugenics in terms of scientific pursuit is like saying math shouldn't be pursued because Hitler used it. It adds heat but no light and is a little silly.
As I keep repeating, it's a little thing by itself, but added to all the rest of the "news stories" that are designed to cause anger, fear, and confusion, it becomes a destructive force for our culture and our people.
There is no desire nor agenda to cause fear, anger, etc. here. This is an investigation and it leads where it leads. It is interesting in its own right and the report is clear that is just a tantalizing step in expanding mankind's knowledge of abiogenesis. Which is a good thing in any and all contexts.
Yes, I look like a stupid old fool for raising this issue because it's only one small thing, but if a lot of us had slapped stuff like this down during the past 30 years, we wouldn't be in the pickle we're in now. 'sall I'm saying.
Yes, "slapping down" such scientific pursuits would have ensured we didn't have Metformin (which I need to live), Plavix, non-chemo-based Cancer therapy, Lipitor and the like.
But before I go on, what "pickle" do you speak of? I can only see good from our aggressive pursuit of science, and abiogenesis may produce results that we can not imagine. Self-replicating molecules! Can you imagine what that may mean for things like generating skin or even whole organs some day? Bio-computers that can emulate the human brain? Mass modeling with the ability to control for variables?
And that is just off the top of my head...