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Forty years ago when I was a new Christian, genetic manipulation was being discussed in the realm of science fiction. A chimera, a part human part animal creature, was a term used to describe animal-human creatures that were found in mythology centuries ago. Now, as this article explains, it is a fact that chimeras are now being manufactured in the lab. As the Bible states, whatever man imagines he can do, he can. The question is, how long will this go on before God intervenes? Genetic engineering involves humans defying God and making up their own rules as they believe they are directing evolution.
January 5 - The Birth of Half-Human, Half-Animal Chimeras
Article: Cloning And Genetic
Engineering
In H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, the shipwrecked hero Edward Pendrick is walking through a forest glade when he chances upon a group of two men and a woman squatting around a fallen tree. They are naked apart from a few rags tied around their waist, with "fat, heavy, chinless faces, retreating foreheads, and a scant bristly hair upon their foreheads." Pendrick notes that "I never saw such bestial looking creatures." It is 120 years since Wells first published his novel, and to read some recent headlines you would think that we are veering dangerously close to his dystopic vision. "Frankenstein scientists developing part-human part-animal chimera," exclaimed the UK's Daily Mirror in May 2016. "Science wants to break down the fence between man and beast," the Washington Times declared two months later, fearing that sentient animals would soon be unleashed on the world.
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