OK I’ll be more specific:
Word are composed of letters, yes? Sequences of letters. In the manner that songs are composed of a great number of musical notes. You would admit this?
I’m not terribly musical, but suppose that the very simple song, “chopsticks” does contain the musical note, middle C, OK? Suppose that.
Now let’s say Mozart likewise has a song that contains the musical note middle C —following me?
Would you say that the act of “borrowing” middle C from “chopsticks” and putting it into this more sophisticated song has the effect of POLLUTING and ADULTERATING the more sophisticated song?
Cuz:
We have reprogrammed E. coli to make insulin, ok? We snipped in DNA sequences to make a slightly altered organism. This made insulin for diabetics. And with similar mechanisms growth hormone was made to make stunted kids grow properly.
You grow it up, and then harvest the protein, and inject it into patients —done alll the time. The same basic principle is used at community colleges, even (though without injections, obviously).
And not only was that good and commercially valuable, but I didn’t think of this new E. coli as being evil, or somehow less “E. coli”-like.
I didn’t hate the E. coli, but it was happy to be my medicine slave. It never complained or anything, and it did it’s job (?) well.
It was in the garden, and.....it seemed almost like I was SUPPOSED to pick it up and use it.
gaijin: “It was in the garden, and.....it seemed almost like I was SUPPOSED to pick it up and use it.”
There are all sorts of things in nature that people COULD say are evil. What about splitting the atom? Clearly mankind is NOT supposed to split the atom. That’s tearing apart what God put together, right?
No. Again, scripture is a trustworthy guide on this as well as many other issues. Not only that, but scripture is complete. In other words, it contains all guidance necessary to live a righteous life.
I don’t understand how genetic engineering violates the supreme commandments:
Love God with all your heart, mind and soul.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
If my fellow Christian’s can point to something in scripture that says man is not permitted to do this or that it’s evil to want to cure people or earn a living, then I’ll follow it.
A gun is just a gun. It can be used for evil or good. Should we eliminate all guns because people use them to murder or people build them to make money? I don’t think so. Guns also defend us and protect us. What matters is what comes out of the heart of the user.
You never provided any Scriptural reference to back up your statement in post 30.
“You..you are saying that God did not say that everything in the Garden of Eden is for mankind?”
What the rest of your irrelevant post has to do with the moral considerations of corrupting humans or animals with each other’s DNA has to do with the topic of this thread, is beyond me.
The ends does not justify the means.