Topic: Social and Cultural Issues
Arguments Against Genetic Engineering: The biotech debate is ongoing. For some of us who found out eight years ago or more about it the debate has been scant and is long overdue...by Michael
(Libertarian)
Monday, March 10, 2008
Argument I
Personally I subscribe to the premise that an all-knowing and all- wise Creator God established barriers between species so that they could not naturally cross-breed for reasons understood only entirely by Him and for now beyond our comprehension. It is the Natural Order of Things which He established. As mankind in foolish arrogance and unadmitted ignorance continues to artificially trespass these natural barriers which God has established for His good reasons what might be the [near] future consequences of our violating them?--I'm afraid that one day soon we will begin to find out...
Argument II
Even viewing this from the flip-side of the atheistic/evolutionist stance; dare we put our feeble, meddling hand into millions and millions of years of natural selection which has led to the current state of bio-diversity? Evidently in the 'survival of the fittest' scenario which this encompasses there was sufficient cause for barriers to develop which prevented cross-species transfer of genetic material. How can we undertake to do this thing without reckoning on unexpected and potentially disastrous consequences and the unraveling of 'millions and millions of years' of the development of the existing natural order of things?
Argument III
It is also very difficult to imagine approval in this matter by those who subscribe to the many New Age, shamanistic 'man as a part of Nature' belief systems. In finding mans' place within the natural web of life I cannot see it, from this point of view, being the dicing and slicing and splicing and rearranging and reordering of the natural order of things.
The Source of it, then...
The only source of this insidious impetuousness must then be pure Humanism, i.e. man as god(s); man as the ultimate intelligence, wisdom and force--and I'm sorry, but they'll not sell me on that bill of goods either!
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Here you will find several scholarly articles relating to your subject by Ph.D's in microbiology etc.
I believe that the principles for the general theory of organic evolution include not only natural selection and survival of the fittest, but mutations adding genetic material. So, in a sense the evolutionist believes we got here through natural genetic tampering already.
Posted By: Scott from Oregon
Date: 2008-03-10 23:16:25
"Personally I subscribe to the premise that an all-knowing and all- wise Creator God established barriers between species so that they could not naturally cross-breed for reasons understood only entirely by Him and for now beyond our comprehension. It is the Natural Order of Things which He established..."
So you start out by declaring that you use "magic" and "wishful thinking" and "zero evidence belief structures" as your methodology, and then you want people to take your scientific discourse seriously?
What if I started out declaring I believed in Santa Clause and then tried to convince you that reindeer were smarter than elves?
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