[oxryly1]

Selective breeding doesn't create fundamentally new organisms like transgenic GMOs, however -- organisms for which there is no method to predict their interactions with our one and only environment (Earth, if that wasn't clear :p).

[dragonwriter]

> Selective breeding doesn't create fundamentally new organisms like transgenic GMOs,

Yes, selective breeding (both artificial and natural selection) create fundamentally new organisms.

[JoshMnem]

> GMOs are not necessarily any more fundamentally new than hybrids and mutated strains produced through other techniques.

"Not necessarily" but sometimes.

[nradov]

That is incorrect. GMOs are not necessarily any more fundamentally new than hybrids and mutated strains produced through other techniques.