Are we playing God?
Are we playing God in our quest for knowledge, by allowing scientists to work with DNA cloning? The ultimate goal in DNA cloning is to create human life with the unwanted physical traits replaced by designer genes. scientists use the ideas of gene therapy for healing diseases as the motive to aggressively pursue the use of DNA manipulation and to avoid the legal problems of Human cloning. Are we playing God by trying to clone a human, which presently is difficult to do, because changing DNA in an adult calls for treating 100 trillion cells simultaneously. Thus, the research goal is to make these DNA cloning changes in the earliest stages of a child's development, the embryonic stage. This stage of human life has the least amount of rights and laws protecting it worldwide. Scientists are playing up the good that would result from DNA manipulation like weeding out disease causing genes, extension of life, organ development for transplantation, and prisoner reform. But these are steps that nature takes for the need of evolution. Think what if dinosaurs did this and would have survived as a perfect race?? Have we forgotten our attempts in the past to subdue violent behavior with lobotomies or the sterilization of orphans and the mentally handicapped? It is easy to see the day coming when designer humans could be created and perhaps another attempt at a super race. In more modern history, Adolf Hitler made his attempts to be like God by the atrocious medical experiments on the Jewish people and prisoners of concentration camps. I am not relating Adolf Hitler through cloning, but the Hitler attitude is present in the world today that would lead to the renewal of these activities all under the guise of gene therapy because he too was trying to put the superior Aryan race in charge of the world.Today, we travel the heavens in space shuttles, getting a look at how small we humans are compared to the vastness of space. We eagerly await new pictures sent back from the Hubbell Satellite to view who else is out there besides us. So it isn't far fetched to believe that mankind would not properly treat the human life it created through cloning. Isn`t the world a better place just because we humans are to err, emotional prone to diseases and so called mortal things???
I know that everyone has heard of Embryonic Stem Cell(ESC) research and all of the wonderful promises it holds. We may get cures for cancers, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's, Alzheimers... The list goes on and on…
the promises that ESCs hold are indeed impressive, and I think a lot of people would benefit from this, however, we have to remember not to overstep our boundaries here. So first, we are going to take a an egg, fertilize it, then let it grow for a short time, then we will extract some cells, and throw the rest out. Babies (YES THEY ARE BABIES) will be artificially conceived, and after we get what we need from them, we just toss them.In the name of research do we have the right to do this???
Last but not the least what are we doing with the LHC???trying to play God again??
I really don’t know and understand..ok we are trying to find out what the thing was when the big bang happened or the universe came into existence…but is there is any possibility that after the proton streams collide recreating the time and mass. We might be able to find out Higgs Boson and a lot more things that will explain a lot more ….. but can that start the formation of another universe in that LHC???? if yes by the slightest of possibility can we imagine that we too might be in some LHC of another superior universe…..all that then starts to look so foolish and futile….isnt that….????
Why fiddle with nature when its evident that we are always on the losing side …
We failed to incorporate nif-genes in higher plants…failed to recreate life….trying to be smarter than nature what have we done ??/ the fact remains that we have only made a mess to the place we live and making it unfit/unsuitable to live….from the day man discovered fire we have slowly poisoned ourselves trying to be smarter…Wouldn’t it be better to live in harmony with nature and leave some things the way they should be….
one simple question i would like to know if we are so advanced and accruded so much knowledge why is that we are unable to provide the basic amneties to the fellow earthlings....why is it that little children still die of hunger ( the number is maximum ).....we have developed so much yet we dont know to respect women as everywhere she is still treated as an object of lust......
maybe the answers are blowing in the wind but i cant hear them........
I know that everyone has heard of Embryonic Stem Cell(ESC) research and all of the wonderful promises it holds. We may get cures for cancers, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's, Alzheimers... The list goes on and on…
the promises that ESCs hold are indeed impressive, and I think a lot of people would benefit from this, however, we have to remember not to overstep our boundaries here. So first, we are going to take a an egg, fertilize it, then let it grow for a short time, then we will extract some cells, and throw the rest out. Babies (YES THEY ARE BABIES) will be artificially conceived, and after we get what we need from them, we just toss them.In the name of research do we have the right to do this???
Last but not the least what are we doing with the LHC???trying to play God again??
I really don’t know and understand..ok we are trying to find out what the thing was when the big bang happened or the universe came into existence…but is there is any possibility that after the proton streams collide recreating the time and mass. We might be able to find out Higgs Boson and a lot more things that will explain a lot more ….. but can that start the formation of another universe in that LHC???? if yes by the slightest of possibility can we imagine that we too might be in some LHC of another superior universe…..all that then starts to look so foolish and futile….isnt that….????
Why fiddle with nature when its evident that we are always on the losing side …
We failed to incorporate nif-genes in higher plants…failed to recreate life….trying to be smarter than nature what have we done ??/ the fact remains that we have only made a mess to the place we live and making it unfit/unsuitable to live….from the day man discovered fire we have slowly poisoned ourselves trying to be smarter…Wouldn’t it be better to live in harmony with nature and leave some things the way they should be….
one simple question i would like to know if we are so advanced and accruded so much knowledge why is that we are unable to provide the basic amneties to the fellow earthlings....why is it that little children still die of hunger ( the number is maximum ).....we have developed so much yet we dont know to respect women as everywhere she is still treated as an object of lust......
maybe the answers are blowing in the wind but i cant hear them........
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