That is a consistent way to deal with the dangers presented but it is one that will ultimately fail. Too much can be accomplished that is obviously beneficial. The development of these capabilities cannot be stopped. It is essential that we develop religious values that can deal with the enormous new power these techniques present. This is a necessary and inevitable step in evolution, albeit an enormously dangerous one.
Religious leaders are correct in urging caution.
We are on the verge of taking conscious control of processes that are governed by unconscious laws developed over the eons. Without consciously acquiring some measure of the wisdom innate in those laws we will make a terrible mess of it. Wisdom is not in abundance in our institutions. A small part of that wisdom can come from the mathematics of creativity. This can teach us a few of the fundamental constraints that evolution operates under and provide specific guides on what is definitely a mistake and what is necessary to preserve creativity.