Do you remember the slogan from the 1970’s for Chiffon Margerine? “You can’t fool Mother Nature.” In their commercial, of course, you could fool Mother Nature. A lot has changed in the relationship between man and nature in the past 40 years. Man has begun to manipulate nature in ways that would have been inconceivable back then. Giant...

On the way home yesterday the local radio station was having people call in to discuss whether or not they thought using genetic engineering for “designer babies” was a good thing or not. I only got to hear one call but it raised so many interesting questions about the ethics of genetic engineering. What difficult choices there are going to be in our...