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_5c0641a0e4b0cd916faf700cI'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.