Biology cannot be invented

June 23, 2006 | Share/Save

"[We] exist only as the legitimate outcome of the forces that we express. [Even] if we are the genetic experiment of a scientifically advanced race, the experiment can only be a manipulation of existing lifeforms; it does not include the invention of our whole existence. Our genes can be synthesised, or rearranged; the biological frame of life can be altered, but biology itself cannot be invented out of nothing by something that is itself an evolutionary product of the universe." - Richard Grossinger, "Giving them a Name", quoted by in Keith Thompson’s Angels and Aliens, p.235, pub. A.D.1991