Interesting distinction here between “playing god” and “playing science.” I’m not totally clear on what you mean by “playing science” though; I think you’re onto something, but it’s worth delving a bit more into how science is opposed to “god” in the novel. Maybe it helps to broaden the notion of god to more generally, “nature.” So, science (as Frankenstein works it) is opposed to nature. That might be a more tenable opposition to set up with the novel