Especially if he's a man from Belgium. Men from Ireland, not so much. And by "play god," I mean work with nanotechnology.
Wait, what? Yeah, apparently if you're trying to work with objects on an atomic level, you're playing god (which isn't that outrageous of a claim, I mean, c'mon, you're messing with the fabric of the universe itself). Like most other worthwhile and entertaining activities, you have to ask yourself, just because you CAN do it, does that mean that you SHOULD do it?
According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, religious individuals do not believe that nanotechnology is morally acceptable. They studied the number of people that agreed or disagreed with the statement "nanotechnology is morally acceptable" and cross referenced it with the general level of religous belief in that country. In their fun and exciting graph:
they show that on average, as people identify themselves as less religious, they are more willing to find nanotechnology morally acceptable.
Are you right along that dashed red line (i.e., ultrareligious and nanotech-opposed, or atheistic and pro microbots)? Or are you an exception?
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Man was TOTALLY meant to play god.
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1 comment:
Being that I'm British, I border on the horizontal line of apathy. Sounds about right, really.
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