And Knowledge Shall Increase Or Man Shall Play God

By:Steven Dobbs/ Rapture Ready

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. “

Daniel 12:4

We live in a marvelous age of technological advancement.Many scientific breakthroughs that have occurred in the last 100 years or so have made the lives of multitudes of people far easier.In the past decade those breakthroughs have accelerated at a break neck pace.Cell phones are now mini computers.Satellites can give pictures that are at such quality that it is possible to read a license plate.This is just the technology we know about.Leading scientists have stated that DARPA research projects are a decade ahead of what mainstream science is currently working on.I was watching a documentary recently about technological advances mostly in genetics called “Playing God”.The BBC correspondent Dr. Adam Rutherford went to various institutes across the U.S. and the U.K. to see firsthand the advances in mainstream science.

·Utah State University scientists spliced the DNA of a goat and a spider.Contrary to popular rumor and fake internet pictures the “spider-goat” does not have six or eight legs.It resembles a normal goat on any farm in any rural setting; however the milk it produces contains a protein that can be extracted to obtain dragon-line spider silk.This silk is one of the strongest materials found in nature.The lead scientist stated “Spiders are carnivorous and cannibalistic and very territorial and therefore can’t be farmed”.So the only way to obtain meaningful quantities of this material was to genetically alter an animal that can produce larger volumes.On the surface this seems to be a harmless if not beneficial practice.

·Scientists have moved single genes and chunks of DNA from one species to another before, but Dr. Craig Venter’s team met a milestone a few years ago, transplanting an entire natural genome of one bacterium into another and watched the original goat germ turn into a cattle germ.

·Venter further distinguished himself by creating a synthetic life form by taking building blocks of life and splicing them together in a cell that had been cleared of its original DNA.He created a new synthetic form of life using existing pieces of other life.This new bacterial life form was dubbed Synthia.The most astounding thing is Venter used a computer program to write the DNA code.

·This blending of Biology and computer science seems to be the way of the future.One use of such technology according to the documentary is to create a biological circuit or biological program that could run through a human and if cancer cells are found, the program would kill the malignant cells, if no cancer is detected it just runs its course and goes away.Once again this sounds like science put to good use.

·There is a project called the IGEM project which involves teams of students from various universities worldwide that combine biology/genetics/computer programming to create the best genetic project.The example use in the documentary was students taking a chameleon like property of a type of squid and uploading it to a computer.The genetic information is then placed in bacteria, that reacts with pollutants in water.The result would be when this genetically altered bacteria encounters pollutants in drinking water it will change color.The genetic information is then stored on a website and can then be used by scientists worldwide for their projects.These genetic materials are known as bio-bricks.These bio-bricks can be ordered online and used to create whatever the scientists can imagine.

·In 2008 three individuals won a Nobel Prize for making ecoli bacteria that glowed green by combining it with a jellyfish gene that glows.Now less than five years later the same project is being done by children at a community center in California.

·Last also not part of the documentary, according to Fox news: “Babies with the genes of three parents could be born within three years, British scientists have announced.” “The procedure involves transferring the DNA from a mother’s egg into another woman’s donor egg in order to replace the mother’s faulty mitochondria, which are described as the ‘batteries’ that power the cells in our bodies.The egg is then implanted in the mother to prevent her child inheriting her faulty genes, which can cause incurable and potentially fatal conditions such as liver, kidney, brain, muscle and heart disease.”

All of the scientific achievements listed above are at face value positive and represent scientific progress.Now for the dark side of such technology…..

In the case of the “spider-goat”, when GOD created all living things it was ordered, each created after their own kind, and GOD saw that it was good.Apparently to some it wasn’t good enough and they need to improve upon GOD’s creation.

“And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”GENESIS 1:25

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