I was listening to people on the radio discuss genetic manipulation, and what it could do, and what it should be used for, so I got to thinking.
There are people who state emphatically that God’s Plan is thwarted when Humans engage in genetic manipulation. My guess is that they’re the same people who abhor contraception and the utilization of unwanted blastocycts for stem cell research. And the same people who detest the idea that God’s Plan could be evolution.
I want to know how they discovered the specifics of God’s Plan. I mean, if it’s happening, and if God’s Fingers move every piece on the board, how can any move on the board not happen according to God’s Plan? Really now, don’t those things seem mutually exclusive?
And more importantly, again, who knows God’s Plan, and how do they know? Do the TV bloviators have a special connection? Why would omnipotent God grant special super secret access to some conduit instead of telling everybody Himself? And why do people seem to believe what these people tell them? And send them money? And smile while they do it?
Back to the perils of genetic manipulation, the topic centered on its use for cosmetic purposes, mainly to make blonde blue-eyed children. Strong and smart were a distant second to blond and blue-eyed. Healthy was, I think, OK.
Why bother with cosmetic genetics? If people are blonde they’ll dye their hair brown. If eyes are blue they’ll wear brown contacts. Nobody’s satisfied with the way they are. Nobody’d be satisfied with the way their parents make them; that’s the way they are.
Here’s a suggestion, though: since humanity seems hell bent on multiplying until there are 10 or 30 or a hundred billion of us, maybe we should try to make ourselves very small. About the size of a lawn gnome might work best. Complete with pointy heads to fit those hats.
