I couldn't resist reading a book titled "Hacking Darwin" by Jamie Metzl. I'm not on board with the idea that we all evolved out of the ocean. It is hard for me to imagine that humans, elephants, giraffes, dogs and so on all evolved from the ocean. My faith in God is just to strong to go down that road. I was very curious though to see what the author had to say so I read the book. I have to say I read the book with a very skeptical mind. I suppose my Guardian Angel was knocking me on my head reminding me about my Creator.
Once I started the book I was hooked. The author takes us on a journey to what our future will look like as human beings. How we will reproduce outside of our bodies and will choose our babies based on the traits we want in them. A lot of his predictions are possibilities about what our technology will be able to do. What frightens me is that our technology is almost there. Mice embryos are already being grown in man made placentas outside the mouse. Albeit for not many days but it is happening. The author leads us to believe that this will be good for humanity. I'm not so sure I'm on board with his thinking. I have to ask, "Are we too smart for our britches?". Could we be going down a dangerous slippery slope? We are all so genetically unique that one change in the genome of one person might not have the same consequence in another person. Could we make a change that could have dire results on humanity? These are questions that need to be answered. If I look at how society and technology have advanced I'm not so sure our smart britches have made us healthier. Since WWII we have added thousands of chemicals to our society in many places: food, cleaning supplies and toiletries are just a start. I suppose some chemicals have been beneficiary but at what cost. Autism has been on the rise and so has cancer especially thyroid and breast. Have we created a pandemic by manipulating viruses? Scientists have been studying corona viruses for years. What happens when the next one kills people of all ages? Look at all the plastics in our environment, those come at a cost to our health and our planet. Gee, some of those plastics will be on our planet for hundreds of years. So have we become too smart for our britches? Possibly, and going forward it could have devastating consequences. We need to move to a proactive society and not a reactive one when it comes to technology and what we do with it. We need to put the brakes on, especially with viral manipulations, and think carefully how far we want to take our technological advancements. We need to take a close look at what we've already accomplished and ask ourselves are we better off with it. Our food quality has gone down tremendously over the last 20 years. Could it be from the pesticides used on our food and reapplied year after year. I can't even image the levels of chemicals in the soil after just 5 years of pesticides. Genetically altering our food cant be good. Manipulating a tomato gene with a salmon gene so you can grow it in cooler environments must come at a cost to the nutritional value. I know it does to the color and flavor, the last one I cut into was bright red on the outside but white on the inside and had absolutely zero flavor. The questions go on and on.
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