Do you have a religious aversion to genetic manipulation? Obviously the science isn't there yet for humans, but in the coming decades and centuries, it will undoubtedly be common practice to correct genetic defects -- or even to improve on 'human design' through genetic resequencing.
What are your thoughts?
I don't think there is anything inherently anti-Christian about genetic manipulation, nor do I think there is anything inherently wrong (morally) with the technology or with its expansion.
Like any form of power, it can be used for good or for evil, depending on the intentions of the one wielding it.
If we can make our children healthier, more beautiful, more intelligent, and if we can select the sex of our babies, then I'm not convinced that would be a bad thing. It's just a lot to wrap our minds around at the moment.
That said, I do believe we think a little more highly of ourselves than we deserve credit for. Genetics is an extremely complicated and poorly understood area, and we are only in the nascent stages of understanding how the whole ball of wax works. If you look at an 80's movie depiction of the future, you'd see a vision of the future that included flying cars and robot maids. People actually believed we'd have these things, because robotics and automobile tech were booming fields at the time.
Much in the same way, I think we overrate what we'll be able to do with genetics. The science is still young enough to have that "wow" factor, to make people's imaginations go wild, but once our knowledge matures, I think we'll find that our ability to manipulate genes is as pedestrian as our ability to build robots or our ability to make hybrid cars.
Let's take a step back here. Yes, it's a pretty cool parlor trick to make glow-in-the-dark mice. Still, that's a long, long way off from making designer uber-babies in a lab. I guess the point is, let's acknowledge how far we really have to go, from a know-how standpoint, before any of this even becomes a moral question.
(btw, great question!)