Theists: do you find it blasphemous that scientists have improved upon plant biology?

Question

Is attempting (and apparently succeeding) to improve God's perfect design blasphemy?

"A new way to genetically tweak photosynthesis boosts plant growth"
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-way-genetically-tweak-photosynthesis-boosts-plant-growth

Answer 1

Improved?? Ruined is more like it. Natural eggplants are sliced, salted, and left to drain for half an hour to remove the bitterness. You don't have to do that anymore. And the eggplants taste like NOTHING.

Answer 2

No irreverence when scientists improve plant biology especially considering God/Jesus/Holy Ghost provided the essence of a plants biology. <

Answer 3

people were improving plants long before science was conceived we also improved the wolf sheep and horses

Answer 4

It is as exciting and as scary

as the discovery of nuclear power

or artificial intelligence.



This has the potential

to more than quadruple

the growth rate

of any green plant.



Quadrupling the productivity

of every farmed acre

might be nice.



Anyone want to live on Endor?

Want to mow your grass

3 times per week?



This could cure global warming,

and make it look like

a comparatively trivial problem,

at the same time.



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Regards,



John Popelish

Answer 5

Frankintomatos!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

I like your assumptions that "scientists" have improved upon plant biology. A couple examples are the beautiful and absolutely tasteless bell peppers and tomatoes. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7). Hence, the playing around with the genetics of tomatoes and peppers has resulted in repulsive tasting "food".

Answer 7

All plants and animals you eat have been improved over the millennia. It is called selective breeding. There are probably no domestic plants or animals that are anything like their wild origins. People in Christ's time had been improving crops for up to 10,000 years since agriculture began. If Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha can eat modified food, I see no reason for anyone else not to.

Answer 8

Science is behind the times. Scientists are just discovering the things that God designed into the flora and fauna eons ago.

Answer 9

Scientists have changed plant and animal biology. I don't know about "improve."

Answer 10

No, because it's part of the plan.

Answer 11

Gosh. It's almost as if some engineer far in the past deliberately restricted photosynthesis to keep plant life from growing out of control. Has it occurred to anyone that humans have a very bad habit of thinking they're "improving" something when, in fact, they are merely creating a disaster.

Answer 12

They haven't improved anything



they have taken what God provided and enhanced it





usually we find that playing such games has unintended side effects

Answer 13

No real improvement was made. You can't improve on God's design. The supposed claim of "improvement" is more lies from so-called "science".