The only reason we survive at all is because nature USUALLY moves slowly. We don't hold a candle to natures power.
But we do hold dominion over the other critters. The herd of stampeding elephants can kill people but couldn't make us extinct. You know we can and almost have the reverse.
The question that people hang on people is what responsibility comes with this power. The deer don't ask the hunters, the anti-hunters ask the hunters. The critters just accept it.
Nature has the power to take this superior position away from us at any time by coming up with something badder. But I just as soon people didn't try to create new things that we aren't sure won't have dominion over us.
Other than being more expensive, whats the difference between Kac's show and spelling the passage out in alphabet soup and stirring with a spoon? Oh wait, lower forms have to do it. OK, throw a couple frogs in the soup.
I'm in awe of the whole invent a gene, splice into bacteria and mutate them, process. What scares me is that someone with that power and ability is so off the wall he would waste it discrediting a passage in a book that doesn't mean a tinkers damn. There are many worthy goals for scientists to pursue.
