Playing God

It was one of those evenings when the arduous pain of office work had broken me down. The thought of making dinner was killing me. It was a choice between starvation and sleep. I knew i could not sleep, then the next work day would have been another painful one to pass.Eventually ended up watching telly while i was cooking. BBC had new programme on synthetic biology. It was a very interesting series which showed how much we humans have advanced technologically where we can take a gene from a jelly fish and put it into a bacteria to make it glow. Wow that would have been some kind of science fiction when i used to study biology in school.

Being a computer programmer, i can relate to the theory of creating such kind of programmed cells. This made me think..are we really playing god??? Some people may say this is not right and we should not try to mend nature..but are we really mending nature??

Nature created us..Humans..gave us the brains to think..its all natures design..so some day if we really design a cyborg....isn't that also form of evolution..? May be nature wants us to create these to take it to the next level..May be this is all in the design..May be this is the form of nature's way of exponential evolution..We humans are just the tools for it..

The biggest reason of evolution is necessity to survive..To keep you alive...thats why we have brains..because we are not the strongest in the animal kingdom..Humans evolved their brains because they had to survive.

Hence the transformation from Monkey to Human..

Now we are faced with the next stage of evolution..Man has reached the stage when he can challenge the the ultimate default, i.e death..Can this be the another step in evolution??

If our body is a machine..then the genetic code is the software that runs the machine...

I feel synthetic biology is the tool that will take humans to the next level of evolution.

To make a man into a cyborg.

And this is nothing against nature, this is nature's way of evolution. Its been happening for millions of years and will continue on....