From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   Many people refer to any effort to work with genetics and nature as "playing   
   God." These people however have nothing to say about man driving one half the   
   nature's species into extinction or burning the Amazon. This hypocrisy has   
   gone on for long enough.    
       
      
   If man can destroy, then man can create. And yet the destructive potentials   
   are taken for granted, while constructive potentials are suspected and   
   attacked. This creates the worst possible scenario in which man is nothing but   
   a destroyer, and nature is    
   nothing but something to be destroyed. There is no outcry from such people   
   about this destruction; but when creation happens, all hell breaks loose.    
      
   This results in the worst things for nature and the worst things for humanity.   
   If man can cause the world's fastest ever extinction, then man has the right   
   to create and to produce. From creating cures to genetic diseases, to creating   
   artificial forests    
   and farmland through irrigation with desalinated ocean water, to producing   
   artificial bacteria to eat materials such as plastics, the creating,   
   constructive potential of humanity must be vitalized to solve man-made and   
   natural problems. At which point    
   man stops being only a blind destroyer and becomes an intelligent creator.   
   That's not playing God. That's being the best of man.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)