In a sense, the battle over the future of biotech - and, if Fukuyama is correct, the future of humanity - is between those who fear what humans, having eaten of the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, might do with biotech and those who think that it is high time that we also eat of the Tree of Life.
The latter suggests that we had tasted of the
tree of knowledge of good and evil, one of the many archetypal symbols trees have taken on in our collective unconscious.