Genetic research has made fantastic strides in the past 20 years, and a new technology has opened the door for modifying DNA that was undreamed of not long ago. CRISPR/Cas9 is a technique of “cutting and pasting” pieces of DNA that holds the potential for biologists to cure genetic defects, eradicate diseases, and even create designer babies “whose genes have been carefully selected to make them smarter, stronger, or more beautiful” (“Scientists may soon be able to ‘cut and paste’ DNA,” Business Insider, Nov. 19, 2015). The fear that biologists will “play God” is very real, since so many of them have no fear of God, claiming, in fact, to be agnostic at best. Hank Greely, a bioethicist at Stanford University, says, “There’s this idea that the human geneline is the sacred essence of our species, but that’s nonsense, because we share most of our genes with other species.” This frightful level of arrogant spiritual blindness is the rule rather than the exception in science today, and it is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts” (2 Peter 3:3). (Friday Church News Notes, December 4, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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