So in the world of ethanol, there's a lot of buzz about scientists creating these genetically engineered bacteria to convert biomass into ethanol. People have spent millions and decades in the lab messing with bacteria, trying to make them into the perfect tool for ethanol production, and they're apparently getting close. The thing is that normally, no one specific bacteria has the ability to breakdown and convert the all of the carbohydrates in a plant into ethanol. So, these people have taken the charge to create a super bug that will tear it up, and be really be successful in bioconversion in a single organism.
Initially I thought the product was good, but I realized what it was, and I've taken a stance against it. I'm not comfortable with people messing with creation. God has wondrously created thousands and thousands, if not millions, of different types of bacteria, and they all have unique abilities. It just doesn't make sense, why mess with what God has called good? Why not just combine some bacteria to work together? I'm just saying, that's going with the flow of how things operate on Earth.
Anyways, I know how I feel about genetic modification for this specifically. But I'm sure it's all over the spectrum of the scientific world. How do you feel about it? Do you think its wrong to mess with God's creation? Do you think that because of the fall, and because creation is affected by it, we need to repair some things that got messed up? Can a scientist bring glory to God by using their abilities to create something new? God is the creator, and we're made in His image, so is not being like Him? Can you even argue that when God is holding everything together, even atoms?
Like I said, I know how I feel about it, what do you think?
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Yea, thinking about that stuff always makes my head spin. I can't even say where I stand on those issues, and yours specifically I do not know much about. I read a book last summer called "Our Posthuman Future" by Francis Fukuyama. Have you ever read it? I own it if you want to borrow it. It opened my mind and broke down any hard opinions I had stored up. It's a bit off topic from what you mentioned in your post. But it might be helpful. Just so you know, there were times I had to guard my heart while reading it... but we have to do that often with many things. And then again, maybe you've already read it.
Word Word. Yes, I think that when it comes to creation, a human's job is different even if we are made in His image. We have the ability to create, but, God alone has the ability to create life. We can mess with life, but we don't have control over it. We're constantly involved with life, but we're not causing it. We have the ability to culture life, to grow to expand to harvest, but we're planting things, not growing them. And even with creating offspring, it's not the act of making love, it's God weaving things in the womb that creates life.
So, there in lies the difference. We use clay to make pottery, God uses it to make Adam. Yep, I think a vase would look better in the kitchen anyways......
Parable of the seed
And Jesus was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know. The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head. But when the crop permits, he immediately (S)puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
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