Welcome to Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger.
In his state of the union address, President Bush proposed a ban on all human cloning and the creation of human animal hybrids. The reaction of some has been to mock such a ban, believing that cloning or hybrids are things of fiction and not reality. They could not be more wrong.
As one example, there is a scientist at Stanford who regularly creates and destroys lab mice with enough human DNA to make their brains similar to human brains.
When it comes to scientific progress, the old adage is true, if it can be done it will be done. Our job as Christians as salt and light is to stand in the way of so-called progress that is unguided by ethical and theological concerns and do some serious thinking for our culture. Bans on such technology are an ethical requirement if we want to avoid moral briar patches before we are stuck in them.
This has been Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church, and Director for Dayspring Center for Christian Studies. For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.
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