Only idiots would think otherwise tbf. All I was saying is that until recently (in modern human terms) splicing, cross pollinating and selective breeding wasn't believed to be a science, it was only accepted as such in the 1700s

It wasn't until the 1850s that Austrian Monks essentially created modern selective breeding practice using peas. They discovered the principles of hereditary, dominant and recessive traits and all that, Mendelian inheritance it's called. Before that point we generally did things with the hope of achieving something but with no specific known way of how to do that and how to replicate. I'd say it only became an actual science at that point really