SUBJ1

I prefer to make changes and choices in the world which actually confronts me. I do not think you appreciate the magnitude of a genome, nor the complexities of its expression.

Say you had omiscient knowledge of every grain of sand on your own private beach, and could select the size and shape of each one so that spectacular castles would spontaneously form from the typical range of wave action. Would you do so?

Yes. (I asked you (or Jack) first, though.)

It would seem that your point is back to, "you can't get any closer to intended results from selective breeding". I'm probably missing something again.