Heads I win, tails you lose.....
Because we (the mankind) also want antibiotics, cancer cures, nuclear reactors, satellites and so on, and this need is well founded in "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
You can't gain this dominion by perverting science in the name of your favorite interpretation of the Bible.