Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) has been described as “one of the most bewitching and insidious works of literature ever written” Is his work of science-fiction and of engineering paradise coming to pass? Read on…
I have been carrying out some continued research of several key sites on the continuing ‘scary’ developments being proposed by transgenics.
I am alarmed at the strides of the new medical-gods wanting to produce, ‘all in the name of medicine and science’, new and improved super species.
How does this fit into an eschatological framework? Precisely in the arena of species manipulation and the emerging hybridization of the plant, animal, and human. It appears, at least from the reputable sites that it is still at an early stage of development. But if the trend goes unchecked science may end up producing corrupted and horrible creatures.
Transgenics raises some serious ethical questions – consider these for example:
- Is it right for medical and biological sciences to create new life forms and cross a species original boundaries?
- The more this science advances, what would be the long-term effects on human health and the environment, and even the definition of ‘human’?
- Is it right to blend nonhuman animal and human DNA to create a human/animal hybrid?
- What if something goes wrong? What could be the unintended personal, social, and cultural consequences?
Genetic engineering involves manipulating genes. Various techniques are used to isolate genes, to modify genes so they function better, to prepare genes to be inserted into a new species, and to develop what is called transgenes. The Action Bioscience website (an educational arm of the American Institute of Biological Studies) explains the process of creating a chimera through genetic manipulation.
The process of creating a transgene includes isolating the gene of interest from the tens of thousands of other genes in the genome of a gene-donor species. Once that gene is isolated, it is usually altered so it can function effectively in a host organism. That gene is then combined with other genes to prepare it to be introduced into another organism, at which point it’s known as a transgene. A transgenic organism, sometimes called a chimera, is one that contains a transgene introduced by technological methods rather than through selective breeding.
The chimera is the resulting animal hybrid, a mixture of tissues. Transgenic organisms contain altered genes from other organisms. The host becomes the receptor of the foreign genetic information. It is a blending of species. It is believed that this process could change not only the genetic structure of the modified animal and its offspring, but its development, sensory modalities, disease propensity, personality and behavior traits among other things.
Chimeras and the AncientsChimera is an interesting name they chose for their hybrids – I will call it the Chimera Effect. In Greek mythology, the Chimera (Greek Χίμαιρα) was a monstrous creature composed of the parts of multiple animals: upon the body of a goat and head of a male lion with a tail that terminated in a dragons’s head, the head of a goat arose on her back at the center of her spine. (check out the picture at the bottom of this post)
In the iconography of Hinduism the Yali is similar. The image the yali has a catlike graceful body, but the head of a lion with tusks of an elephant and tail of a serpent. The Chinese have the Qilin, a a creature with the head of a dragon, the antlers of a deer, the skin and scales of a fish, the hooves of an ox and tail of a lion. You may also remember the Manticore (Baricos in Greek). It was a legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark). 
Why mention these – they are only myths and legend? They are mere fantasies of ignorant days…are they? I think one possibility is that there was a corruption of the species some time in history past that produced these so called hybrid chimera’s. The Bible talks about a flood that came and destroyed the world because of sin – all flesh had become corrupted.
What brought about such a devestating judgment from God? Is not sin just as horrific over the last 1000’s of years? What was special about Noah’s day? Is there a possibility that the ‘gods’ and ‘beasts’ of pagan and ancient religion are perverted and distorted tales that may have a psychological link back into ancient events of a pre-flood world?
Obviously they have been confused and grossly distorted over time and the only really accurate record is the infallible Word of God, yet to the ancient cultures they believed that some such creatures existed. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great (Gen 6:5) and that ALL FLESH, not just the sin of wicked humanity but ALL FLESH including animal had become corrupted. The Hebrew word for ‘corruption‘ means marred, spoiled, distorted and perverted. Could it be that the word “flesh” refers to man as well as beast?
Had something happened in the ancient past that had affected the genetic line through whom the promised Messiah was to come and crush the head of the serpent? We already know that there were Nephalim on the earth as a byproduct of fallen angelic beings coming into the ‘daughters of man’ – human females. (Gen 6:1-4). Some mutation or blending of species took place to produce these Nephalim. The original genetic boundaries (”after their kind”) had been violated. ( See also Lev 18:22-23, Lev 19:19, Deut 22:9)
When the Greek Septuagint was created, the Hebrew word Nephalim was translated into Greek as ‘gegenes.’ This is the same word used in Greek mythology for the ‘Titans‘, creatures created through the interbreeding of the Greek gods and human beings. The English words “genes” and “genetics” are built around the same root word as gegenes; genea means “breed” or “kind”. Now what is interesting about Noah at the time of the flood and one of the descriptions the Lord gives of this man is that he was ‘perfect in his generations‘. (Gen 6:9)
The Hebrew word for ‘perfect‘ is tamiym and carries the meaning ‘without blemish’, ‘complete’, ‘without spot’, or ‘undefiled’. The Hebrew word for generations, dore, means ‘generations’, ‘condition’, ‘habitation‘. Contextually the meaning could be that the Lord is declaring Noah as ‘undefiled in his genetics or kind.’ His genes had not been tainted. The Greek word genea “generation, race” is where we get the English word gene.
Author Steve Quayle in his unique study subtitled ‘Children of the Gods‘, sites various sources and evidence that shows that through genetic manipulations animal hybrids with greater strength can and do appear.
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to believe that if such creatures would result with just minor genetic modifications, that the offspring of an angel/human coupling would not be just as–if not more–modified. Because angels are noted for their great physical strength, it isn’t unreasonable to think that the offspring of human interbreeding would also have such strength. This is reflected in the second title given them in the Genesis 6 passage: “mighty men” and “men of renown.” In other words, the “lab rats” of the past were human beings, with the “scientists” conducting their genetic research being fallen angels.
Today, it seems that Genesis 1:12, 21, 24, 25) no longer applies. ‘The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kind, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.” Apparently God’s good is not good enough to the lofty ideals of evolutionary presuppositions and godless science.
In a 2007 essay entitled, DID ANCIENT BIOTECHNOLOGY CREATE “NEPHILIM”? researcher Tom Horn states that
Such transgenic tinkering already exists in many parts of the world including the United States, Britain and Australia where animal eggs are being used to create hybrid human embryos from which stem cell lines can be produced for medical research. A team at Newcastle and Durham universities in the UK recently announced plans to “create hybrid rabbit and human embryos, as well as other ‘chimera’ embryos mixing human and cow genes.
The fiber artificially created from this silk protein has several potentially valuable uses, such as making lightweight, strong, yet supple bulletproof vests. Other industrial and medical applications include stronger automotive and aerospace components and stronger, more biodegradable sutures for closing wounds.
Transgenic biotechnology is presented as an exciting development of possibilities for society and the human species. Again, the ethical questions still mount up.
thority or commandments of God are not ethics at all. Rather they are excuses from the camp of humanism (i.e. the human decides what is ethically right, not the myth of God)