Princeton professor of Christian ethics Paul Ramsey, a prominent Protestant theologian, published Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control. It is a turgid book with one vivid sentence: “Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.”4 The social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, dubbed by Time America’s “foremost opponent of genetic engineering,” coauthored a book titled Who Should Play God? “Once, all of this could be dismissed as science fiction, the mad ravings of a Dr. Frankenstein,” he wrote. “No more. We are not in the Brave New World yet, but we are well along the road.”
