Playing god with cheese...

What does one get when they play god with milk? Cheese, sour cream, butter, etc. What does one get when they play god with miracle grow? Plants that are healthy and rich, hopefully anyway. What the heck am I talking about? Phrases like, "we can't do that, that would be like playing god." Actually, I was thinking about this in relation to genetic research and manipulation, but it could apply to many different things.

One large issue in the topic of genetic research is whether or not it would be moral to do things like study stem-cells, or clone people. One reason that some will call it immoral to do so is that it is god's job to create things, not ours apparently. What about the fact that we as humans do nothing but create different things for ourselves. We play god with everything. We modify, amplify, expand and inflate. We blow up and magnify anything that we can possibly do so with... so wouldn't it seem to be a natural step?

How could it be ethically dangerous to say, research stem cells for the purpose of curing diseases. It doesn't seem like it would be. After all, the stem cell is microscopic, with no concsiousness. One worry might be over how far something like this could go. Before we know it, we'll be cloning ourselves for the sake of living again, or cloning massive amounts of worker zombies, army zombies, or robots... Dawn of the Dead... or modifying our children to have blue eyes and IQ's of 175. I feel that what us humans do with ourselves is already in "nature's" hands. With the ball of civilization rolling like it is, there is really no telling what is next. Imagine all of the 6.5 billion people on earth and every city, every house, every building, dam, airport and roadway. What is everyone doing? Living, working, learning, laughing, smiling, lying, thinking, creating a plan, having no plan, walking, running sleeping... playing soccer and so on. The ball is rolling, where will it go?