“During the night I was often wakening with thoughts, or rather images, of visions of ones and zeros running through my mind, my mind’s eye…”
“During the night I was often wakening with thoughts, or rather images, of visions of ones and zeros running through my mind, my mind’s eye…”
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should ...
To the extent genetic science can bring about restorative health into a person it is fine. It is ok to code out a defective code that brings scoliosis. However, there must be sure ways to research such individual treatments without recourse to the destruction of human life or treating human beings with indignities and abuses.
If you can find a healthy person willing to try gene therapy, I’m ok with that if we’re in the relm of restoring health from a state of obvious defect.
Can we edit out commies?
That was a really good ep of Nova. Showed the positives and dangers really well of the technology.
There are ethical benefits derived from defining and studying the human genome. For instance it is quite evident that some people even when exposed to Covid-19 simply do not get infected. The reason they don’t has to do with their genes. They have a gene or genes that allows them to resist this virus. Theoretically if you study the genetics of those people, you could identify that gene and develop a test to determine who is susceptible and who is not.
Humans have been doing this for a long time. It’s called marriage. So what? See what happens and then the crap will hit the fan.........
Scientists might try to create the perfect female like Leeloo in the Fifth Element. Unfortunately the result will be more like Nancy Pelosi with Biden’s dementia.
If it can cure the mental disorder that leads to Leftism then I’m all for it.
Was not this why the frantic efforts to find a gene causing homsex deviancy has vanished?
So far atomic science has been used for good. even the atom bombs to end world 2 were for good.
Atomic medicine has been for good.
There will be people that will always try to use something for bad. That doesn’t mean we should stop learning and striving.
It doesn’t mean it’s evil because God gave us the brains to discover how to do something.
We know a lot about genes but what we don’t know is frightening. Consider the various genes that yield green eyes. There are several. And it appears to me that God was into code reuse. Just a short while ago, they were talking about “junk dna.”. To me, that says they just don’t understand it all.
i would pay to genetically edit out facial, nose and ear hair. It all itches and I would be much happier without it.
Wait until you see what China does with this technology. It will be a nightmare.
Luckily, you don’t need a college education to do genetic engineering—you can order a kit from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/DIY-Bacterial-Genome-Engineering-CRISPR/dp/B071ZXW1TW
While this may not be the best start for human genome projects, it’s definitely enough to get you started with some nice home-brew corona viruses...
Luckily, we have this guy to show us where this is going:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/biohacking-stunts-crispr/553511/
Of interest...CRSPR ...is a way of snipping out DNA...was first discovered in bacteria as that is what it uses to edit out infective or defective dna...the enzymes are called...restriction endonucleases...look it up for a brief intro to the stunning complexity of those tiny tiny “bags of protoplasm”...which obviously formed deep in water next to a thermal sea vent.