Will Genetic Engineering be good ?

Just think of all the weird animals we could create. 60 Foot Birds Minature Elephants. Attack Shrews for protection

Will Genetic Engineering be good ?
Genetic engineering has great potential to do many good things, but it also can raise some serious ethical concerns. With genetic engineering, crops can be modified to be more restistant to disease, pests, and adverse weather. It can also be used to cause foods taste different, be larger or smaller, ect. Proper application of the science can increase the food supply and make growing areas and seasons larger, which is hard to say is a bad thing.





As far as engineering on humans, there is great debate. The science is really a 'hit and miss', 'trial and error' ordeal. To change the traits of an organism, scientists must test genes and see what changes correspond with which effects, predictions are very hard to make. Testing on humans with the knowledge we have today would no doubt result in the killing or deformation of countless fetuses and infants. If the science were better understood, numerous hereditary diseases could be cured, resulting in a much higher life expectancy for the gentically modified population. However, another ethical issue arises; if a baby could be 'planned' with genetic engineering, would it be right to do so? If we were to discover the genes linked with eye color, height, intelligence, ect., would it be acceptable for parents to predetermine the characteristics of their baby?





This kind of science is still a long way off, so it might be something you don't even have to worry about in your lifetime.
Reply:Genetic engineering as already started (I do some myself), but trust me, we have better things to do than to create weird animals and that kind of things.


We use genetic engineering to understand proteins function and regulation to understand diseases and create cures.


Genetic engineering costs way too much money and takes way to much time to try to do things for "fun".