Paul Root Wolpe discusses genetic engineering, physiotechnology and xenotransplantation, amongst other means, by which scientists are taking evolution into their own domain and deciding what the next iteration of a species is.

At what point does this become unethical? Is it already?

Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering

Every species on Earth serves a purpose, tampering with them disrupts their purpose and either negates it (as would occur through natural evolution, at the point when the species becomes extinct) or creates a new, unknown and un-preemptive, purpose. There exists no calculated-risk or exist strategy for when an experiments outcome is nothing like the “expected”. When you assume…

There’s a reason for why science fiction is a literary genre and not a reality. There’s a reason why people refer to 1984 and ‘Big Brother’. There’s a reason why humans protect their right to privacy, freedom of speech and value a freedom to chose. When you play with fire…