Saturday, April 16, 2005
From The World Of 50's Sci Fi...
...comes the incredibly mutated monster the wolphin. Worse yet, it's reproducing. This on the heels of the recently announced liger. "He's gone mad I tell you, completely mad." Soon there will be a fishbird and then, before you know it, the jackalope will no longer be a mere legend.
Dear friends, there is much to be afraid from the field of genetic engineering, but, as with all science, there is much good that can come out of it as well. Here we see two examples (liger and wolphin which really are true) of very significant genetic manipulation through quite ordinary means. The methodologies of recombinant DNA are just a new way to do something that has been happening for centuries. The prevention of the potential evil here lies not in banning the technology, or its results, but in making good people out of the people that use the technology.
Dear friends, there is much to be afraid from the field of genetic engineering, but, as with all science, there is much good that can come out of it as well. Here we see two examples (liger and wolphin which really are true) of very significant genetic manipulation through quite ordinary means. The methodologies of recombinant DNA are just a new way to do something that has been happening for centuries. The prevention of the potential evil here lies not in banning the technology, or its results, but in making good people out of the people that use the technology.
