California Bans Genegineered Fish

Cheeko writes "California regulators have announced that they are blocking the sale of genetically engineered fish. The arguments of the regulators seem to echo some of those discussed earlier here."

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Re:Breeding is only one part

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First, the jokes. :)

Each generation is more intelligent than the last.

Aha! So I am smarter than my parents. I thought so.

we've found that code to be reused over and over again

Aha! So God invented OOP, not Stroustrop as we previously thought.

Ok, more seriously:

You left out a significant possibility. Assume, for the moment, that the closer a group of people is to the source of all life on earth, the more likely they are to know the truth. Considering that omnipotent monotheism is actually a fairly new concept, and you insist on giving it some form of credibility, then we must give way to the idea that earlier civilizations might have a better chance at knowing the truth of matters.

First, it's pretty common knowledge that Greek and Roman mythology are parallel to one another. It's generally assumed that the first Romans were in fact Minoans or Myceneaens fleeing the Trojan Wars, or possibly Myceneaens who emigrated west during the Greek dark ages. Why then, are Greek and Egyptian mythology so similar? Not to mention that the Babylonians had a pantheon similar to both Greek and Egyptian pantheons. Furthermore, the other civilizations in the area shared similar pantheons, and when you go farther east you only find more of the same.

My point is, the possibility you haven't allowed for is the idea that very powerful, but not omnipotent, gods could have created all life on earth, in which case the use of statically-linked libraries would make a lot more sense. They'd start with their own genetics, if they had any, or they'd create genetics based on their own forms, and then proceed to start building. It's a process that could easily have taken millions of years before they achieved a sentient humanoid life form which would easily appear to be evolution to modern scientists.

After their apparent destruction (during the time of Legends, referenced by both well-known sources of mythological data as Time Bandits and Ultima II), the life took on its own form, and in order to survive, finally began to evolve as we know evolution to be.

Not that I endorse this possibility, but it's at least as credible as one omnipotent being creating the heavens and the earth and crap. Fiction is, after all, fiction. ;)