Comments on: In The Mail http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/04/05/in-the-mail-9/ a diary of sorts Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:29:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jg http://www.kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/04/05/in-the-mail-9/comment-page-1/#comment-3155 jg Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:23:42 +0000 http://kevinholtsberry.com/kh/2006/04/05/in-the-mail-9/#comment-3155 Kevin, I remember one pundit remarking in the mid 80s (?) that it was the biologists we should be putting behind barbed wire if we really knew the evil they were capable of. He was prescient. At that time the main Cold War worry was always nuclear. I hope the Lawler book is good news. But I am a pessimist. We are into Faustian depths with our playing God. And the biologists won't just destroy our world as once the physicists threatened. They will make it into a place beyond death. Where God couldn't exist. I come by my pessimism understandably. I was raised with SF. Much of the SF of the 40's thru 70's concerned itself with a like worry, primarily mutation, mainly because of the fears raised by atomic radiation. Kevin, I remember one pundit remarking in the mid 80s (?) that it was the biologists we should be putting behind barbed wire if we really knew the evil they were capable of. He was prescient. At that time the main Cold War worry was always nuclear.

I hope the Lawler book is good news. But I am a pessimist. We are into Faustian depths with our playing God. And the biologists won’t just destroy our world as once the physicists threatened. They will make it into a place beyond death. Where God couldn’t exist.

I come by my pessimism understandably. I was raised with SF. Much of the SF of the 40’s thru 70’s concerned itself with a like worry, primarily mutation, mainly because of the fears raised by atomic radiation.

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