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Supposedly someone has already come up with a chimp brain in a human or a human brain in a chimp. Of course I'm not sure if that is confirmed, as I cannot find the reference.
But it all reminds me of a quote to the effect of "Science which says, if it CAN be done, it SHOULD be done, leads to scientific horror."
We have gone too far in our technical ability, and our moral compass, our reflective sense, has not kept up.
Jerry Mander's book, In The Absence of The Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, makes that point.
He says that suppose, when the technology to create the auto was underway, we had had a referendum as a society to decide, if we wanted to employ it. Now, I think people would have chosen it. But that's not the point. The point is - we never were given the choice.
Engineers create the technology, and corporations who make millions push it, and where is the reflection on the consequences?
ellen
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In a bizaar way, what is taking place today reminds me of the "chimeras" of ancient mythology; the half man and half animal creatures that the ancient writings are so chock full of.
I was taught in school to believe this was only "mythology", yet as our own sciences advance and genetic manipulation becomes the rule rather than the exception, more and more highly educated people are taking a second look at those old mythologies. Those so called myths describe cloning, invitro fertilization, advanced aeronautics and nuclear warfare with such uncanny accuracy it is utterly mind boggling.
Some people believe, based on the ancient historical evidence, that we must have been visited by an alien race from the stars while others suggest that fully human civilizations in the ancient past (primarily Atlantis and ancient India) were as technologically evolved as our own civilizations of today. I ride the fence on this one because I don't think all the evidence is in yet, but I am reasonably certain that based on the evidence so far, "somebody" was engaged in genetic manipulations in the distant past. Whoever those people were, based upon the written evidence, they had the scruples and ethics of gnats.
"The Creation of Man" texts found in Sumerian and Babylonian history certainly suggests that somebody genetically manipulated mankind in the ancient past, and they make no bones about the fact that they did so in order to create human slaves.
