All of society is dazzled by the array of new scientific technology and advancements in the realm of scientific research. In this age surely we have seen antibiotics and their charge to the top of the medical profession. Computers have advanced faster, everyone is going faster, communicating better, having more knowledge, and dealing with disease better than ever. Our world and our technology is growing and is compounding faster than ever before. Science has always been a major form of information for our society in this day in age. AND, for as long as I can think, science has been to many people something that clashes with religious beliefs and religious explanations. But, for so long science has not been quite advanced enough so as to truly clash with any religious practice. Sure, we have been testing on animals for quite sometime and that is wrong, but I am talking about very deep issues and circumstances that develop some major problems for us as people as our world presses on. Problems with creation and other such issues that are only now in today’s age a concern. If science goes the way it has the potential to head, there is a major concern for the ethical and religious issues that come up from this problem. In
The issue of genetics has been around for quite sometime. Ever since man has farmed and bred cattle, he has attempted to enhance and increase the production of cereals and animal stock through crossbreeding. Genetics, essentially, acts upon genetic heritage to modify the natural transfer of genoms inside a species. The genetic code was established in 1966 and there have not been many more advancements toward genetics until the nineteen eighties. In this decade we have insulin, the first vaccine obtained by genetics, the first genetic therapy, and the first success against AIDS ever. Today genetic therapy is at a high with incredible feats yet to come. Throughout the world, about 200 trials are ongoing, reaching about 2000 patients. Genetics in the 21st century will be what antibiotics have been to our age. However, with these astonishing scientific achievements going up everywhere it is certainly hard to say no. So much good can come from the advancement of science and its technology. We are growing more and more knowledgeable of this technology. So, how could it possibly be wrong? With this science takes on much more responsibility than we have ever seen before in our day in age.
Our society must know exactly as to what it is sitting on. We are sitting on an immensely large topic. This issue is quite possibly the largest and most important issue our society has to face. We must be careful. First of all,