Super Designer Babies

I was listening the a TED podcast and they were talking about gene editing of children with CRISPR.  Specifically of people.  I recalled the movie Gataca where people on Earth do that.  Which is okay in my mind.  Most people and the speaker in this podcast talked about designer babies that produced stronger and smarter children and stronger and smarter adults, but this is not what it would be used for.  

Childhood leukemia.  Diabetes.  Congenital Heart Defects.  Hemophilia.  Cystic Fibrosis.  Muscular Dystrophy.  

The end to genetic diseases.  The end to diseases that have a genetic component.  

Yes they will try to create children that are smarter, except that more about intelligence is dependent on how stimulated your first three years of life are and less about how good your genes are.  They will try to make people stronger, but that depends more on how active a child is.  Compare the child that is inactive versus the active one.  Research on gut flora is telling us that many things about that affect other things in our life.  

The long and the short of it is if we want super children, we need to have stimulating early life environments and physically stimulating environments.  If we want future Nobel winning scientists, future Olympians, we will not find a genetic advantage until every child is on an equal footing.  Let's unpack that.  Is an Olympic medalist, a super human, or did they just have the advantages that allowed them to become that person.  The olympian swimmer swims for thousands of hours a year, eats the best food and has the dedication to do so.  There is some physical component, but it is not as important.  The question is: is the drive a genetic component?  If it is, then that drive would be the important part of any scientist or athlete, not intelligence nor strength.

Genetic super children, designer babies are the ones that will be free of genetic diseases that their parents have, they could be enhanced with tall genes and blue eyes or tan skin, but athletic and intelligence are environmental mostly.