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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 12, 2014 at 9:04 pm
I don't have much of an opinion on GMOs. If anyone accuses the people behind them of playing god, I'd say isn't using electricity playing god? Given that lightning bolts were once said to come from a god? How many things to we already do in daily life that was once thought to be god's domain?
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 12, 2014 at 9:19 pm
(October 12, 2014 at 9:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I don't have much of an opinion on GMOs. If anyone accuses the people behind them of playing god, I'd say isn't using electricity playing god? Given that lightning bolts were once said to come from a god? How many things to we already do in daily life that was once thought to be god's domain?
I think a reasonable justification for why human race should continue to exist is future generations would be like gods to their ancesters a handful of generations ago.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 12, 2014 at 9:28 pm
(October 12, 2014 at 9:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I don't have much of an opinion on GMOs. If anyone accuses the people behind them of playing god, I'd say isn't using electricity playing god? Given that lightning bolts were once said to come from a god? How many things to we already do in daily life that was once thought to be god's domain?
On a weekly basis I perform surgeries from minor treatments to major, life saving changes.
I never see the religious complaining about myself or my ilk playing god that way.
I have, however, seen them give thanks to their god after they've received life saving surgery from people like me.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 12, 2014 at 9:55 pm
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Because obviously he is the one who made sure you and they were in the right place, and guided your hand along the way, because of his invisible attributes that can be clearly seen. Thank Caduceus whose icon is plastered all over hospitals and ambulances in the country.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 12, 2014 at 10:40 pm
I always prefer to think of god as being responsible for their loved one getting the injury or illness that requires surgery in the first place. Hey, if you're a Christian, it makes sense; you can't give him all the credit for the good and then dismiss all the blame when bad stuff happens.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 12, 2014 at 10:47 pm
On the subject of GMOs, I really have no problem with them as long as they've been thoroughly tested.
With the world warming up and desertification happening all over the world, plants that can grow in arid regions are likely to be the main way to feed the growing populations. And, further on, to be used on other planets when we head out into the solar system - particularly Mars.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 13, 2014 at 1:04 am
Really, my only serious worry about GMO's comes down to potential for infection. We're reducing the genetic diversity which, in turn, means that if one plant gets infected with a virus or a bacteria, more than likely the entire crop will quickly be infected. It has the potential to devistate entire crops and that's kinda scary. I mean, remember what happened to the Irish when they lost their potato crop?
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 13, 2014 at 5:23 am
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The potato bit was a freak occurrence (for them) coming at a time when people didn't really understand what was going on. You can manage blight with roundup....at a few bucks a gallon. 
@Chuck, yeah - though clearly we can make the case that it's already at a point where it doesn't really matter if it gets "worse", as it's already crossed the threshold into territory we might describe as 6 of one, half dozen of another. Right now there are a handful of useful varieties in each major crop(a couple of which are already GMO, obvs). The promise of GM is that there may one day be One™. I think that would be great (from a production standpoint), provided that we maintain a thriving seed industry, people growing novel varieties as a way to put blocks in the GM toolbox (and as insurance, obvs).
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 13, 2014 at 9:09 am
I don't mind GMO food, but I'm against any technology that seeks to be a replacement for nature. I'd rather people work harder to keep the world alive as it it, rather than having a fallback in place.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 13, 2014 at 9:10 am
(October 13, 2014 at 9:09 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm against any technology that seeks to be a replacement for nature.
But..that's what technology is. It allows us to overcome the limits that nature imposes. Hell, I would certainly consider medical science to be 'a replacement for nature', and I wager you aren't against that?
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