Express About the Idaho Mtn. Good engineering consists of taking inanimate materials and putting them together with intelligence and precision to make something useful. A well engineered item is stable, orderly, planned and, most important, predictable. Using the tools of linear thought, engineering designs and manufacturers functional products for the benefit of mankind, usually for sale in the marketplace. Engineering is a good thing.
Inanimate objects are the raw materials of engineering.
Genetic material is something else, or, more accurately, genetic material is something else entirely . A single gene of any plant, human, fish or fly is infinitely more complex in relationship to its environment than the most intricately engineered machine man could ever assemble. Genetic engineering is the secret laboratory experimentation of mad scientists, usually employed by large corporations or large universities which, in turn, depend on the largess of those same large corporations for large amounts of research money. People who do not eat fish cannot now eat any but organic strawberries with confidence. A gene contains the basic dynamic force of life.