A Cleverly Designed Device

THINKING BEFORE I SPEAK

Rio Junior

In my hand is Rio Junior.

One of the birds of the heavens… As David Helton puts it… Hoatzins to crows to pigeons - all those different colours and feathers and all the migration routes and songs and egg shapes and mating displays; the passerines, the ratites, the galliformes, the raptors… And God saw that it was good.

And then we took His place, manipulating genes, we’ve turned around and subdued every one of them, directly and indirectly, en masse and individually. And now that we’ve got genetic engineering we can do it even faster and more cunningly, right up to the bitter end.

God set it up, we knocked it down, We are the winners. But why aren’t we saying, “This is good”?