I do not know if many people can value life less. So many are aborted for convenience or sent to be human bombs.
As for creating life from scratch, my wife and I did that twice. One is 2 1/2 years old, and the next will come out this week.
Personally, I prefer the way we created life from “scratch” (Though I thought it was called ‘sex’) over the laboratory method.
On a serious note. Say one day we create multi-cellular organisms. Say these become capable of actions and can receive stimuli input (adaptation/sensory input). Say they CAN do work. Now we have created a new species. Future society may believe they are gods for they create.
The question becomes, how will we treat our creations, these synthetic lifeforms? Will we, like our Creator, imbue them with free will and freedom? Or will we have separated ourselves from morals and values to the point where these lifeforms are slaves and disposable? If, in playing God, will we become the Devil?
Probably not a question that will affect our lives, but one for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We will help set the tone for debating that question today.
This is the question for our time: What is science unbound by morality?
“This is the question for our time: What is science unbound by morality?”
Nuclear medicine and nuclear weapons. They come from the same research.
It may not be The West that does it, it may be some rogue corporation who starts turning out laborers to run factories in a third world craphole. If they get there first, they will be positioned to set the standard by which these constructs are measured. If they are created as slaves, thats the way the will be treated.
If we allow someone else to spearhead the great gene rush, they will set the standard by which all living artifacts are judged. We have to get ahead of that and set a standard that requires anything created by man in the humaniform to be given the rights and protections extended to born in the womb humans.
If we do that, we may avoid being cursed by our constructs as Lucifer’s minions. If we fail to act early enough, I think your statement about us becoming The Devil will be close to the mark.