Genetic Engineering, Experimentalism, Morality

According to a widely accepted narrative, the father of Modern Philosophy is Descartes, by virtue of his refusal to accept the existence of God as the foundational premise of his system, replacing it with I Think, thereby establishing both Certainty and Subjectivism as the cardinal principles of the era, with Rationalism and Empiricism as competing means to those ends.  But, according to one counter-narrative, the more radical break with the preceding Theocratism is formulated by Bacon, an Experimentalism that evokes the pre-Fall curiosity of Adam and Eve, and implicitly embraces Uncertainty. On that basis, the subsequent Empiricist tradition initiated by Locke is reactionary, as is the Rationalist one, at least until Kant, somewhat belatedly, acknowledges Bacon as an influence.  But, it is not until Nietzsche and Dewey begin to codify Experimentalism that Bacon's primogeniture begins to become overt.  In Dewey's case, that codification is formulated as a Logic, while for Nietzsche, Self-Overcoming, and, hence, Will to Power, are fundamentaly Experimentalist, as is the Morality that corresponds to them.  It is that Morality that challenges the blanket repudiation of genetic engineering as 'Ethically questionable'.