James says:
see what Joy says
Although I don’t believe this point is as strong as Joy’s GNR vs Atomic point, I believe
here too is a very clear, simple line of logic at work. “A Tale of Two Botanies” states that
“It’s unwise to assume, as most ‘genetic engineers’ generally do, that 90-plus percent of
the genome is ‘garbage’ or ‘junk’”.(Joy, 247) Junk? This goes straight with Joy’s point
that Genetics is a area of research that we don’t know enough about to dive in head first.
He uses past events again to show that when we, as a race, dive into something that we
know little or nothing about, the results can be horrible. Scientist knew more about what
they were doing when they created the atomic bomb than we know about what we are
doing today. Joy’s argument successfully shows through a simple line of logic that what
we are doing today can
and most likely will turn out even worse than old WMD.