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Post by dizzyjam on Jul 8, 2009 13:59:32 GMT -5
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Post by fluke on Jul 8, 2009 16:00:54 GMT -5
What a Brave, New World we witness!
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lexkx
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How nice to know that if you go down the hole, Dad will fish you out.
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Post by lexkx on Jul 8, 2009 17:37:35 GMT -5
I once heard a very wise nurse explain that a man and a woman may decide when to make love, but God decides when to make life. The more we humans push the question of whether life is in our hands or His, the more trouble I expect we're in for...
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Post by Christian Soldier on Jul 8, 2009 21:23:47 GMT -5
True, but I don't see Him punishing a child because of its birth by not providing a soul.
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Post by dizzyjam on Jul 9, 2009 0:34:41 GMT -5
C.S., the thing about it is this, once we take it out of God's hands whose to say that it won't be a demon running the body and not a human spirit and soul? That was a conclusion of the point I was trying to make even though it required a second post on my part to make it clearer. If it was a genuine human, then sure, God would give the person a soul just as everyone else has, but I've often wondered about cloned humans (and now manufactured ones) and whether or not this would just be a way for the demonic to enter our world in a more physical way and those "humans" would have no way of being saved and would be able to utter such blasphemies as we have never heard. (or said) Where does a person having a soul ends? What happens when they learn how to combine human DNA with animal and produce the beings we usually reserve for speculative fiction? How would you like to meet a real live centaur? Or a man with a bird beak? Or a man walking around with hooves for feet and little horns growing out of his head? Just what creature of genetics would it be, and would it have a human soul that can be redeemed? That's what I'm asking.
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Post by metalikhan on Jul 9, 2009 23:13:51 GMT -5
Some years ago, I read a short story that involved genetically engineered centaurs, fauns, etc.; but the MC discovered the technology was also used to produce monstrosities like the old Egyptian gods and Lovecraftian beasts. Pretty chilling.
GE doesn't always bring good things to life.
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Post by dizzyjam on Jul 10, 2009 22:28:32 GMT -5
Heh-heh-heh. Who said they were using GE to power their technology? Sounds like an interesting story, can you remember the name of it?
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