Google Invests In Genetic Indexing

Bibek Paudel point us to a BusinessWeek report on Google's interest in the cataloging and analyzing of people's DNA. Google has recently invested in DNA screening firms Navigenics and 23andMe, which test customers' DNA for characteristics such as ancestry and predisposition for certain diseases. The customers are then able to give the information to their doctors. This is not Google's first foray into the medical industry. "Google wants to plant an early stake in a potentially large new market around genetic data. 'We are interested in supporting companies and making investments in companies that [bolster] our mission statement, which is organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful,' Google spokesman Andrew Pederson says. 'We felt it was important to get involved now, at the early stage, to better understand the information generated by this fast-moving field.'"

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The dark side of Dawkins...

[tjstork]

Well, the dark side of secularism looms its ugly head. Pretty much all physical evidence proves that people are not equal, and, every day we investigate our genes only proves it more and more.

Equality is a religious belief, born of the idea that people great and small are luminous beings, each possessing a soul that beyond our means to measure and categorize.

Evolutionary biologists can say that animals are all "equal" in some abstract way, but, science has already told us that fish live better underwater than humans, that birds can fly and fish cannot, and now, we will find out that we humans too, have different genes that render us better or worse at fighting diseases, giving us a better or worse propensity to engage in certain kinds of athletics or certain types of thought. Even the idea of free will is under academic assault, as scientists unravel the very structure of our minds.

With this knowledge will come new kinds of racism, a racism based on genetics and statistics and all other facts that are provably true. To oppose social engineering based on genetics and population statistics might well be as quaint in academic circles as someone opposed to vaccines is today. We may find it loathsome that the Nazis exterminated the Jews in Europe to achieve their peaceful society, but, will find it loathsome in the future when we decide whether or not breed out or exterminate a class of people with a particular gene that we might calculate to be disruptive or costly?

Congratulations people! You've crushed the Church and disproved God, only to find that made genetic Nazism not only the most logical course of social action, but also the most inevitable.

You have made the very liberalism to which you supposedly ascribe obsolete. Nicely done.