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Originally Posted by theist
I don't think you understand the implications. Yes Krishna is ultimately the only controller but he lets us fulfill our dreams (and nightmares) in this mayaic field.
I don't need to know the mechanics of how a gun shoots a bullit to be able to kill someone, I just need to know how to point and pull the trigger.
The desire for total control of the planet has long existed in peoples minds, that we know. These people will be the ones to use the knowledge of genetics cloning, artifical insemination to fulfill their desires for control. I believe on up to the point of mixing certain genetic traits to form specific types of living beings. Now I don't know the specifics of any of these sciences but I can imagine a mixing of Gorilla genes with human genes to produce a strong working class Chimera that doesn't question authority or demand a paycheck. A crude example perhaps.
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Crossbreeding gorillas and humans won't work
So what exactly is meant by ‘eugenics’? Does it mean the application of Mendel’s laws to the inheritance of human traits through selective breading and/or selective killing? Or does it mean some form of (Lamarckian) gene manipulation (such as ‘gene therapy’, i.e., the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues in order to change its organism and possibly its offspring)? Personally I’m not convinced at all that eugenetic manipulation via this last route is possible. And I’m quite sure that our human genetic makeup cannot be manipulated directly in any useful way because of the sheer complexity of the process of ‘gene expression’ that drives human embryonic development and growth (which is after all the product of 4 billion years of biological evolution). Perhaps medical treatment of some genetic diseases that are coded by a single defective gene may ultimately be possible. But most human traits are encoded in the genome by many genes that interact in a highly complex manner. And yes, Krishna must be the ultimate controller..