You do sarcasm quite well! ;-P
I am expressing uncertainty - that equating man’s meanderings in genetic manipulation with those allowed and sustained by nature appears to me to be overreaching, dipping into man’s non-extant well of omnipotence.
Simple and clear? Not at all. Muddy and complex - absolutely.
Job was God proving a point to the Devil.
I certainly can agree with your sentiments but I am still unconvinced as to the arbitrary limits that you put man’s quest. were we playing God when we went to the moon? were we playing God when we gave Dick Cheney a new heart? Were we playing God when we cured polio in children?
Somehow I’m not sure that
these “limits “ are what God cares so much about. I rather think that it is eternal principles that matter.