Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."
Maybe it is just me, but these concluding sentences from the article have just the right combination of adolescent enthusiasm and intellectual arrogance to sound alarm bells.
23 posted on 08/20/2007 9:39:30 AM PDT by Captain Rhino
( Peace based on respected strength is truly peace; peace based on weakness is ignoble slavery)
"Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem. "When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."