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Standing at the threshold of 'A Brave New World'
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
8/15/2007 4:47 AM |
I was reading a story on the newswire recently here at work about how some scientists think an artificial lifeform will be created in a laboratory sometime between three and 10 years from now. They have reduced the problem to a three-step process, and the first of the steps is expected to become reality in the very near future.
Such a scientific advance is likely to have far-reaching consequences for mankind, affecting everything from medicine to religion. It’s expected that custom-engineered lifeforms will be able to chomp away at oil spills out at sea, and then perhaps to tackle other forms of environmental pollution here on land.
Bacteria-sized structures, for lack of a better term for them, may be introduced into the human body to gnaw away at tumors, cancers and perhaps kidney and gall-stones, too. Biologists and paleontologists will certainly have to revise their ideas about the beginning of life on the planet, and the very roots of various organized religions may have to stand up to withering inquisitions.
If such a goal is accomplished in the not-too-distant future, we will surely all find ourselves living in a “Brave New World,” much as Aldous Huxley suggested, and for better or for worse. And this all brings to mind the question: What happens to the Creator after Man himself learns to create life? There’s a conundrum stout enough to keep theologists and philosophers busy for decades!
Artificial lifeforms could be the greatest boon we’ve ever seen for society, then again it could be the biggest unmitigated disaster imaginable. But which ever way it ultimately tumbles, one thing is for sure: Life will never be the same again! |
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Re: Standing at the threshold of 'A Brave New World' |
By T. Sharpe on
8/20/2007 9:22 AM |
| Typical arrogant scientists, deny God while trying to play god. They need to get back on their meds, you know, the meds that suppress megalomania. |
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