Since cloning become something of a reality in this day and age i began to wonder.are we playing God? how you may say? are we tampering with God’s creation? I like to think of it movies like i-robot. humans created robots to serve them but then robots began to tamper with themselves and life, thinking they could make it better.
are we like those robots? God created us right… but now we tamper with out own genetics and think we can play the role of God. We think we can make our lives better. we think that we know the 10 commandments better than God! by tampering with creation are we saying… God you made a mistake only we can fix it? are we saying… God you made the blueprints we are just going to tweak it here and there?
i personally believe we are saying… God we are better than You, we no longer need to obey you. We have become independent and able to live on our own…
One of the scariest things i’ve heard is in relation to cyclone katrina in the states. “We wonder why there are such catastrophic disasters in our lives and we cry and ask. ‘ WHERE ARE YOU GOD?’ well we tell God to get out of our schools. We tell God to get out of our country. We tell God to get out of our lives, and God being the gentlemen that he is has sadly left the building.”
man isnt that scary? i don’t think God wants to leave us but it isn’t in his character to force himself upon us so the creator of the universe is even humble enough to say “ok, if you want me to leave i will leave.”
British scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.Researchers from Newcastle University, in northern England, presented their findings at a medical conference at the weekend, a university spokeswoman said.
The IVF, or test-tube, embryos were created using DNA from one man and two women.
The idea is to prevent women with faults in their mitochrondial DNA passing diseases on to their children.
Around one in 5,000 children suffer from mitochondrial diseases, which can include fatal liver, heart and brain disorders, deafness, muscular problems and forms of epilepsy.
If all goes well, researchers believe they may be able to start offering the technique as a treatment in three to five years.
Mitochondria are tiny power packs inside cells that provide their energy. Faulty genetics can mean mitochondria do not completely burn food and oxygen, leading to the build-up of poisons responsible for more than 40 different diseases.
The Newcastle team believe these diseases could be avoided if embryos at risk were given an effective mitochondrial transplant. The process involves in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and the subsequent removal of the egg’s nucleus. The nucleus is then placed into a donor egg whose DNA has been removed.
The resulting foetus inherits nuclear DNA, or genes, from both parents but mitochondrial DNA from a third party.
“The idea is simply to swap the bad diseased mitochondria — give a transplant, if you like — for good healthy ones from a donor,” Patrick Chinnery, a member of the Newcastle team, said in a telephone interview.
“We’re trying to prevent kids being born with fatal diseases.” Mitrochondrial DNA is passed down only through the female line.
The technique has so far been tried only in the laboratory, using abnormal embryos left over from IVF therapy, and the handful of three-parent embryos created were destroyed after six days.
Stiff opposition to the technique is likely from critics of embryo research who fear the creation of designer babies.
The research was presented to the Medical Research Council Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases conference in London on Feb. 1-2.
