I don't suggest the following to step on anyone's theological toes, but when hasn't humanity aspired to Playing God? I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of Genesis but I am aware of the several domino-fallings from grace that humanity underwent in the first book of the Old Testament... average life expectancy wasn't quite 65 years back in the Tigris+Euphrates/Fertile-Crescent-and-Middle- Eastern-satellite-community-days. Recent conventions in medicine, in both Eastern and Western civilizations, have worked to extend life expectancy in its inhabitants -- long before Genome. Interesting that you bring up the Tower of Babel and the scrambling of language: the study of linguistics and the construction of unifying trans-lingual models of communication have excelled in the past 50 years. If I were religious, I would say that the "God-energy" granted us language... Genesis then tells us that this God-energy confused us, scrambled language, rendered it scrambled on the surface. Now, after all this time, we are taking the study, cognition, and recreation (both of surface- and deep-meaning) of language into our own hands. Generation after generation, humanity (or, to be fair, those wealth-and-power magnates at the "top") has grokked more of its own evolution: social and lingual especially. Why not biological? The scary part is how many generations we have to botch up before practice has escalated the corporations' gene-manipulating skills to workable levels.
Some governments are more patient than others, with a keen eye for the rising and falling centennial social developments. I've seen lots of Nazi-references in the string so far. Haven't seen too many references to Borg.
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I don't suggest the following to step on anyone's theological toes, but when hasn't humanity aspired to Playing God? I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of Genesis but I am aware of the several domino-fallings from grace that humanity underwent in the first book of the Old Testament ... average life expectancy wasn't quite 65 years back in the Tigris+Euphrates/Fertile-Crescent-and-Middle- Eastern-satellite-community-days. Recent conventions in medicine, in both Eastern and Western civilizations, have worked to extend life expectancy in its inhabitants -- long before Genome. Interesting that you bring up the Tower of Babel and the scrambling of language: the study of linguistics and the construction of unifying trans-lingual models of communication have excelled in the past 50 years. If I were religious, I would say that the "God-energy" granted us language ... Genesis then tells us that this God-energy confused us, scrambled language, rendered it scrambled on the surface. Now, after all this time, we are taking the study, cognition, and recreation (both of surface- and deep-meaning) of language into our own hands. Generation after generation, humanity (or, to be fair, those wealth-and-power magnates at the "top") has grokked more of its own evolution: social and lingual especially. Why not biological? The scary part is how many generations we have to botch up before practice has escalated the corporations' gene-manipulating skills to workable levels.
Some governments are more patient than others, with a keen eye for the rising and falling centennial social developments. I've seen lots of Nazi-references in the string so far. Haven't seen too many references to Borg.
Nah. Infinity's smart enough to assemble them all in the form of one basic meeting poing.
*snort*