Satirical Essay That Argues against Using Genetics to Create Human Beings

To Play or Not to Play... God?
By: Carly Pitney
It is now the twenty-first century and humanity has come a long way from Galileo's telescope and Newton's Law of Gravity. We have made enormous leaps and bounds in scientific fields, especially genetics. We have split the atom; discovered the gene that causes leprosy; cloned animals; created a real cowboy, a half human, half cow foetus; and are now on the verge of 'improving' the average human by completely redesigning it into whatever we want.
Perhaps we should start with a simple definition: genetics is a specialized field of science tha…