I’ve been a little crazy with getting a decent start on a major project, but last night I found at least an hour to catch the last episode (ever?) of the great Canadian tv series, Regenesis. Think of a more intelligent CSI with molecular biologists. The final frame of last nights episode, just before fade to black, was this quote:

“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men”
Jean Rostand – French Biologist (1894-1977)

I’ll go into some of the implications of this at a later date, but it makes me ponder the questions surrounding what cognitive and intellectual skills has humanity picked up that allow us to transcend our biology? Language certainly. The augmented memory and cultural transfer functions of writing. But when it comes to the ability to break apart complex, seemingly disparate sets of information and remodel them so as to understand the system, does anything have the scientific method beat? I’d welcome your comments.