Topic: Genetic Engineering of Humans - page 2. (Read 478 times)
I'm 100% all for this, I wish all countries got involved in it because it is the future whether we like it or not. Why can't we modify human genes to be healthier, look better, be smarter, it's just obvious.
The west not getting involved in Genetic Engineering is giving an unfair advantage to Japan and China who are going to leap frog over us in regards to this technology.
They don't have the same moral obstacles/reservations we do in the west, so expect their dominance in this field over the next 10 years!
They don't have the same moral obstacles/reservations we do in the west, so expect their dominance in this field over the next 10 years!
It could be the beginning of a super-human race that will replace homo-sapiens, or it could be the beginning of the end for humans, as tampering with our genome could cause unforeseen mutations that will destroy humanity all together.
Both of these scenarios assume (with no basis whatsoever) that unmodified humans will go extinct.There's been plenty of films of giant ants and such attacking people.
Argument from fictional evidence is fallacious and allows absurd conclusions, such as that experiments involving cute animals are safe because Night of the Lepus wasn't scary. 
I think that this already happened since we are cloning animals way a long time ago. All these experiments occur and if they have a positive result then they are shown on the public light but if the public opinion doesn't like the idea then the labs or the government would not share anything
As a transhumanist; go for it.
It should probably be regulated. There's been plenty of films of giant ants and such attacking people.
It should probably be regulated. There's been plenty of films of giant ants and such attacking people.
What do you folks think about Genetic Engineering of Humans?
To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about it. It could be the beginning of a super-human race that will replace homo-sapiens, or it could be the beginning of the end for humans, as tampering with our genome could cause unforeseen mutations that will destroy humanity all together.
I'm a believer in evolution, and in my opinion evolution need not be limited to natural selection. An organism's own contribution to it's evolution is not only feasible, it's proven to be possible. Up until now our biological evolution has been slowly accumulating through breeding, selection, and disease. In the last two hundred years or so we've contributed to our own ancillary evolution, which can be cataloged through our tools: weapons, transportation, and computation.
If we are capable of modifying our biological make-up to more closely suit our lives, is it such a bad thing?
Anyway, there have been some interesting stories in the news about He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher who claims to have created two humans who were genetically engineered. Then he disappeared...
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/dec/02/marc-a-thiessen-gene-editing-is-here-its-an-enormo/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/he-jiankui-missing-crispr-gene-edited-babies_us_5c0641a0e4b0cd916faf700c
I'm making this a self-moderated topic because this is a broad reaching subject, and I don't care how closely it stays on-topic.
To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about it. It could be the beginning of a super-human race that will replace homo-sapiens, or it could be the beginning of the end for humans, as tampering with our genome could cause unforeseen mutations that will destroy humanity all together.
I'm a believer in evolution, and in my opinion evolution need not be limited to natural selection. An organism's own contribution to it's evolution is not only feasible, it's proven to be possible. Up until now our biological evolution has been slowly accumulating through breeding, selection, and disease. In the last two hundred years or so we've contributed to our own ancillary evolution, which can be cataloged through our tools: weapons, transportation, and computation.
If we are capable of modifying our biological make-up to more closely suit our lives, is it such a bad thing?
Anyway, there have been some interesting stories in the news about He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher who claims to have created two humans who were genetically engineered. Then he disappeared...
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/dec/02/marc-a-thiessen-gene-editing-is-here-its-an-enormo/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/he-jiankui-missing-crispr-gene-edited-babies_us_5c0641a0e4b0cd916faf700c
I'm making this a self-moderated topic because this is a broad reaching subject, and I don't care how closely it stays on-topic.
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