Messin' with God and Creation or natural scientific exploration?
The subject of genetic engineering caught my attention this morning after yesterday's publicity over successful cloning of a Red Fluorescent cat (video). (Below is a text story.)
After pondering it over a hot shower, I've decided I don't like this. But at the same time I wonder how much of our mucking around with genes, gene replacement therapy, and genetic engineering is still really part of God's plan for humans and the animals we test on. I believe that part of God's Creation as truthfully told in Genesis also included the basic mechanics of nature, physics, and mathematics which govern the movement of bodies. That also includes the mechanics of purposeful, natural genetic mutation which has given rise to changes in species of plants animals which we have been able to document. I'm not saying that Man was not created as we appear today, but even we have experienced mutations which gives rise to the multitude of different appearances of people from different countries or regions of our planet.
But I really cringe at stories like these fluorescent cats. We don't know what we're messing with. Just look at Africanized honey bees which are invading North America now. They started as an experiment in Brazil to see if an African subspecies of bee would do better in pollinating crops. However, the bees got loose, mated with the European-origin bees in Brazil and created the hybrid we call the Africanized bee, or killer bee. And now look what's happening with this new species taking over the US. (I should note that the experiment in Brazil has now yielded re-domesticated Africanized bees which are doing well and are preferred over the original honeybee.)
A lot of "us" just don't know what, or Who, we're messing with. And we cannot foresee all the outcomes and consequences.



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