Who’s giving shotguns to monkeys? The Ancient Romans didn’t have CAD programs, they were still engineers. It took longer to build things, and some of them fell down, but just because their techniques were more primative doesn’t stop them being engineers.
Piling rocks in the shape of bridges, then copying the designs of the bridges that survived the best with minor iterations. Some iterations made worse bridges; these weren’t copied, but the rest survived and led to better bridges.
The romans didnt randomly piled rocks and built bridges. They put in a lot of engineer forthought before even beginning construction. Certainly some were primed to fail because of miscalculations and misunderstandings (something that plagues even modern engineering).
I think we’re getting carried away with analogies, the point is: any technique that deliberately modifies the genome of an organism to achieve a desired result is genetic engineering, and such an organism is a GMO
We can speed up the process. But giving a shotgun to a monkey doesnt make the monkey a engineer, now does it?
Who’s giving shotguns to monkeys? The Ancient Romans didn’t have CAD programs, they were still engineers. It took longer to build things, and some of them fell down, but just because their techniques were more primative doesn’t stop them being engineers.
Well, when you find evidence of the the romans building aquaducts by throwing mud randomly. You let me know.
Piling rocks in the shape of bridges, then copying the designs of the bridges that survived the best with minor iterations. Some iterations made worse bridges; these weren’t copied, but the rest survived and led to better bridges.
The romans didnt randomly piled rocks and built bridges. They put in a lot of engineer forthought before even beginning construction. Certainly some were primed to fail because of miscalculations and misunderstandings (something that plagues even modern engineering).
I think we’re getting carried away with analogies, the point is: any technique that deliberately modifies the genome of an organism to achieve a desired result is genetic engineering, and such an organism is a GMO