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caviar4thought
(and everybody here knows what A, C, T and G stand for. Quite some coincidence, huh?)
It is in english, A, C, T and doG,lets create dog. As for an atheist person you have a huge dose of mysticism. 
I was thinking about engineering humans ever since I heard news that scientists successfully manipulated DNA, I guess 20 long years ago. It will surely come for two important reasons; everyone would like to be smarter, healthier and good looking; second reason even more important, all parents want their children to be the best ever, and good looking, smart and healthy. There is quite big position at the moment from many people who are afraid of this new world, and as eager to go for it as old people embracing smart phones. With new generations however people will get used to this idea, tools will be there, so why not.
From your website, I know, that you're really pitching this idea. You have to remember though, that at this moment all genetic engineering is in very, very, very experimental stage. It will take hundred of years if not longer to find a way to assemble best genes only, on a fly and make sure they grow into a desired human being, plus make it affordable for masses. At this moment it is even hard for us to design a computer program which doesn't crash, needs constant debugging and updates. Windows 7 has 50 million lines of code. In case of human we are talking about 3 billion "lines" of code where no mistakes are allowed, with responsibility and liability being astronomical.
What we are going to see for years to come is " introducing extra DNA" to humans, or shutting down some genes, in order to cure diseases only. True designer babies are many, many decades away.
Be wary of people who tend to glorify the past, underestimate the present, and demonize the future.