[CB..]

"Space above and Beyond" had a nice one too..
first create a race of machines to do the dirty work no one else wants to do..oops forgot to give them a mind of their own..oops they developed one..and told us to "sod off"... next make the same mistake again by creating a race of "tanks" ie manufactured human beings to fight the now independant AI manchine people....oops forgot that they might have their own thoughts regarding having been manufactured to fight our battles for us ...they tell us to "sod off" too....

strange thing about the religious angle on all this is that you can't play at being god (even with a small "G")..without running into the same problems with your creations..give 'em a mind of their own??? or not??? bit of a sticky wicket that..

maybe the bible and other religious works are not quite as barmy as we would like to think...personaly i am inclined to be less hasty to dismiss them as they do throw up the same questions we are finding our selves dealing with ...a "hand book for races that want to play god" ..lol

a parable if you like...taken as such they are becoming more relevant every day rather than less relevant...mind you this is not an argument for religion...religion is a weapon of mass destruction...just an argument for some sort of middle ground..

if were going to start desiging life to suit OUR needs...hadn't we better examine what we believe our needs to be ? first? better to know now rather than later...as it's a lot harder to undo than it it actualy is to do..what de ye reckon..unless we are going to just treat life itself as if it were just another commodity in our consumer "lifestyle"....or perhaps that is why they have been ramming that word down our throats for last 20 years...to prepare us for the concept that life IS just another commodity??

anyhuw i'm sure they (who ever the hell "they" are) know what theyre doing....well there's allways a first time isn't there :rotfl:

would you let an ape loose with a chemistry set??