What is The Meaning of Life?

Moral values, much like today's evangelicalism, continue to shift due to a technology-driven reimagining and rethinking of life. In this case, the technology may rewrite the Book of Genesis...In the begining, Man created Man...

January 20, 2008 is National Sanctity of Human Life Day. President Bush issued a proclamation where he states:

"Today, as our society searches for new ways to ease human suffering, we must pursue the possibilities of science in a manner that respects the sacred gift of life and upholds our moral values."


The last few days illustrate the new level of respect for the "sacred gift of life":

• The British House of Lords voted to allow the creation of animal-human embryos for medical research. Proposals to permit so-called 'saviour siblings', providing spare-part tissues for the treatment of an existing child, were also approved.


• A California research company, has become the first in the world to create a cloned human embryo. The Vatican is calling it the "worst type of exploitation of the human being".

Leon Kass, former chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics addressed Duke University's School of Law regarding the dangers of human cloning:

"With repeated references to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World — a 1932 novel that portrays a future humanity descending into soulless mediocrity through genetic manipulation and other applications of biological sciences — Kass offered a scorching indictment of all efforts to clone human beings. In a speech titled “Preventing a Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning,” Kass advocated for both national and international regulations to prevent such cloning."

In 1997, Kass addressed The National Bioethics Advisory Commission regarding human cloning:

"...What we have here is not business as usual, to be fretted about for a while but finally to be given our seal of approval, not least because it appears to be inevitable. Rise to the occasion, address the subject in all its profundity, and advise as if the future of our humanity may hang in the balance."

Only time will tell what kind of hell will be unleashed for breaching the God-ordained barriers between species, and the human genome.