Where Do We Draw The Line?

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We must step carefully into this vast new field of science with the understanding that putting a patent on the melanoma gene or the baldness gene for that matter is simply playing God in a potentially dangerous way.” (Appleyard, Bryan, Jan 98, Smithsonian)
These are only a few examples of scientific developments that in my mind raise the question: in science? Mr. Appleyard could not have been more on point in his allusion to Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” which along with Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” raises the same question regarding our advancements in science. Where do we draw that line? In my humble opinion there aren’t two books on the planet that demonstrate any more clearly where exactly that line should be drawn. I believe that when man lets science interfere with the delicate process of nature; when he lets it run wild through God’s natural plan for us and permits it to alter or destroy common sense as well as human decency, that then we have gone too ...

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