Why would it be wrong to play god?

I want to create a Bantha. He can be my friend, and we will rage on Han Solo. God here I come, I hope you have some banthas with you because my Bantha is going to be a straight up badass.

Well, God isn't playing himself very well so why shouldn't we?

"aside from the fact that the god of the bible commits murder and genocide capriciously and over petty grievances"

Haha, well in that case, haven't we always been playing God then?

Playing God is not the best or clearest way to describe the troubling aspects of human genetic engineering. Certainly improving nutrition, tsunami prediction, universal literacy and other improvements are good and are thing previously associated with various pagan gods and presumably the Christian God.

The key issue is respect for human life. We already have protocols for experiments and trials with human subjects. There will be public laws and regulations that control the growth of human organs in animals for harvest or experimentation. Human spare parts production is best not left in the hands of people who have no respect for religious principles. The Nazi medical experiments and the attitude toward human life that led to it must be controlled by law and regulation and not the market and profit or fear of litigation.

The current ends justifying means arguments that are publicly bandied about is a red flag of lower of standards of respect and special treatment of people and human-like things.

Creating a cell is not playing God. It is using the brain that God enables within us. It ultimately credits back to God.

We have a history of screwing up. People worry that we will act before we understand the consequences. Happens all the time. In the case of creating new kinds of cells, a mistake could be fatal for all humanity. The admonition about acting like God means don't do things that we aren't evolved enough to understand.

The so-called "synthetic cell" is only synthetic in its genetic information. Blame newspaper headlines for seeking sensationalism.

A pre-existing host cell was injected with nucleotides manipulated into a form of DNA.

Nothing was made "from scratch" as it were, just manipulated.

So no-one is "playing God".. although they would, if they could. But they can't.

God invented man to be his highest creation that was itself capable of creation. So we are supposed to emulate God and be creative. So it is not wrong to "play god".

The god Jehovah of the jews was actually a semi-god that "played god" when he created man. The true God was annoyed at this. But that is a different story and you probably already know it to ask such an intriguing question. It is a "Gnostic" Christian concept.

i assume it is the terror of the misuse of that form of capability. whilst there is threat, there is corruption. we are nonetheless in a time as quickly as we, as a species, seek for to be dominate utilising any means or approaches in our wake. technological expertise certainly enables us to comprehend the universe and make lives much less complicated. in spite of the undeniable fact that, it does advance the form and production of deadly weaponry which ensures destruction and administration of alternative countries and communities. on your occasion of cloning, corrupted human beings can use this new technological expertise in cloning and changing others for purposes alongside with impersonating influential politicians. There are different sciences that we are actually not waiting to posses yet. no longer till we are in a position to administration ourselves.

they like to say that but wed have even more illnesses, senseless preventable deaths, more STDs, and way less knowledge. we would still live in a flat world held up by four pillars. people didnt think it was symbolic when galileo was around.

If people would ever agree on just WHAT constitutes "playing god," your question would be a lot more answerable.