Insty links to this item at Nanodot regarding a new position taken by the World Council of Churches:
The international community must create a new United Nations body with the mandate to track, evaluate and accept or reject new technologies and their products through an International Convention on the Evaluation of New Technologies (ICENT).
Um. Must? Can we have a must-not instead?
Yeah, I know... they're church types. They believe in Supreme Authority, and Central Planning or Intelligent Design or whatever you call it.
If only we'd had central control of science and technology all along! Then we wouldn't have nuclear weapons. Or gunpowder. Or swords, or plowshares. Or modern agriculture, or any of this modern medical technology which defies God's will that we should suffer.
And the Earth would still be in its rightful place at the center of the Universe! Down with the Copernican heresy!
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