Tinkering with Gods Plan

Subject: Tinkering with God's plan.

It's a strange thought that the reality of any place in the world is made more relevant by the way you think of the people living there. It's not the scenery or the way the railways run on time, although that is tied up in the way the people go about their business and their sense of who they are in the great scheme of things. What I mean is the 'dynamic' that a nation attains through its people and their attitude.
Societies are young and old. Some relive their past as if it were the present, others only look forward, having little to reflect upon. Some hark back to better times others live in the moment. Success comes through 'adaptation' especially in such a fast changing world.
There was a time when a parent could pass on his or her skills but now-a-days, even an older brother or sister can struggle to understand and keep up to what the youngest are doing. Tradition has little value in the world of a teenager, the way we were, is for the history books and history is being written every day.
Listening to the themes developed in a program dedicated to genetics and the place stem cells play, not only in the treatment of disease but the eradication of the weak links which hereditary brings. From designer baby's, to defining an abnormality and making decisions as how to cope with it in the human genome, one is led to wonder where it is all going.
'Playing god' as some of the religious people would put it has consequences which are unforeseen. Nature, left to god, has all kinds of quirks,  some of them extremely unpleasant but it is argued it it's god's will and is part of the commonplace arrangement that defines luck and consequence. If we begin to tinker with god's purpose we are defining our role above his.
Of course the counter argument is that science continually interferes in all kinds of ways. If we find a cure for malaria have we denied the natural order of things by lowering the death rate, or an antibiotic does it roll the dice in a way the casino owner wouldn't like.
Are we sufficiently free with "free will" to use our judgement and change what we think needs changing, or is there something inherent in an embryo that it has to be allowed to develop unhindered as if this were part of a plan.

he concept that we are born of God and special, his Divine grace at work, even when a child is created with some sort of abnormality is all part of the religious story. Our tinkering with the genetic make up, the design plan, the tapestry on which we imprint our image for future evolution, has changing the rules of the game and will have unintended consequences further down the line. Will these consequences will be far worse than all the mishaps that natural selection is heir to.