IF GENES ARE DESTINY, WHO CONTROL OUR GENES CONTROLS ARE DESTINIES.

Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History (New York: Scribner, 2016) ("Genetic diagnoses and genetic interventions are also used to screen and correct mutations in human embryos. When 'intervenable' mutations in certain genes are identified in the germ line, parents are given the choice of genetic surgery to alter their sperm and eggs before conception, or prenatal screening of embryos to avoid implanting mutant embryos in the rest place. Genes that cause the most detrimental variants of illness are thus excluded form the human genome up front by positive or negative section, or by genome modification." Id. at 401. "In 1990, writing about the Human Genome Project, the worm geneticist John Sulston wondered about the philosophical quandary raised by an intelligent organism that has 'learned to read its own instructions.' But an infinitely deeper quandary is raised when unintelligent organism learns to write its own instructions. If genes determine the nature and fate of an organism, and if organisms now begin to determine the nature and fate of their genes, then a circle of logic closes on itself. Once we start thinking of genes as destiny, manifest, then it is inevitable to begin imagining the human genome as manifest destiny." Id. at 402.).