While I also feel that humans should not dabble in such affairs, it is BECAUSE we are human that we can do these things. We have the means, we have the intelligence, we have the will.
And as for you saying that true progress is not technological, it is spiritual, I believe (but don't force it upon others) that technological progression is more true than spiritual. Technology uses known fact, not human belief, to justify events, and as we know human minds can be corrupt or innaccurate.