释义 |
play GodBehave as if all-powerful: the fear about scientists playing God and creating children...- It may be tempting to respond to scaremongering stories, about scientists playing God and creating Frankenstein's monster and so on, by hyping the possibilities of science and making promises of miracle cures.
- Then the debate over cloning will be well and truly on, so prepare to hear an endless stream of anguished cries that we are on a slippery slope and politicians have joined the scientists in playing God.
- But such now is the power and pre-eminence of science in the culture of the West, that the temptation for the scientist to play God is greater than ever.
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