I agree with everything he wrote. However, advocates of biotechnology continue to label we skeptics as uniformed alarmists or as romantic idealists who long for a world long past. If we don't embrace biotechnology, they reason, then we must have some irrational fear of the future. After all, the universities, the government, and the big corporations are all promoting biotechnology as a shining star in the crown for human ingenuity. First, we have every right to question the scientific community, because the science currently used in biotechnology is not appropriate for the study of living things.
Biotechnology is based on a mechanistic worldview developed more than four-hundred years ago.
Most scientists today believe that the world and everything upon it operates a lot like a machine. They believe living things ultimately are nothing more than sophisticated machines with interchangeable and replaceable parts. Up to now, we simply have lacked the technical ability to build, redesign, repair, and replace living things. Biotechnology promises to give us that ability. But, living things are not machines.