Monday, 05/19/08

Taking the role of God

How many times have we been castigated for taking the role of God? This headline raises many spiritual questions. MPs back creation of human-animal embryos.

Let's start with this. Will they worship God as their creator? Like Frankenstien, will they seek a creator who can answer their angst of isolation, confusion and meaning? Are the scientists ready to take that place? If not, are they ready to step into the role of creating a new humanity?

posted by Bill at 4:41 pm Monday, 05/19/08

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William Ekhardt wrote:

Gordon Brown, the champion of human/animal embryo research in the British Parliament, has a son with cystic fibrosis. The entire moral compass of a parent of a child with such a tragic condition is redirected by the desire to save their child and others like them. I am stunned that the MP's are so ready to step into this kind of experimentation with the very nature of life itself. If such an embryo is carried to term, are they a human or an animal? Which code of rights apply to them? Do they have a soul at all?

Jewish Kaballah folklore includes a creature called a golem (from whence comes Tolkein's gollum) that we create to fight our adversaries or solve our problems. The trouble is that the golem then becomes our new, greater problem. The atom bomb is a type of golem. A great explanation of the concept of golem can be found here:
http://www.suite101.com/external_link.cfm?elink=http://www.umich.edu/~engb415/literature/pontee/Golem/Glmsmry.html

posted by William Ekhardt on Tuesday, 05/20/08, 5:25 pm

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