Argument I
Personally I subscribe to the premise that an all-knowing and all-
wise Creator God established barriers between species so that they
could not naturally cross-breed for reasons understood only entirely
by Him and for now beyond our comprehension. It is the Natural Order
of Things which He established. As mankind in foolish arrogance and
unadmitted ignorance continues to artificially trespass these natural
barriers which God has established for His good reasons what might be the [near] future consequences of our violating them?--I'm afraid
that one day soon we will begin to find out...
Argument II
Even viewing this from the flip-side of the atheistic/evolutionist
stance; dare we put our feeble, meddling hand into millions and
millions of years of natural selection which has led to the current
state of bio-diversity? Evidently in the 'survival of the fittest'
scenario which this encompasses there was sufficient cause for
barriers to develop which prevented cross-species transfer of genetic
material. How can we undertake to do this thing without reckoning on
unexpected and potentially disastrous consequences and the
unraveling of 'millions and millions of years' of the development of
the existing natural order of things?
Argument III
It is also very difficult to imagine approval in this matter by those
who subscribe to the many New Age, shamanistic 'man as a part of
Nature' belief systems. In finding mans' place within the natural
web of life I cannot see it, from this point of view, being the
dicing and slicing and splicing and rearranging and reordering of the
natural order of things.
The Source of it, then...
The only source of this insidious impetuousness must then be pure
Humanism, i.e. man as god(s); man as the ultimate intelligence,
wisdom and force--and I'm sorry, but they'll not sell me on that bill
of goods either!
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Reader Comments:
Posted By: DX10
Date: 2008-03-10 22:08:32
http://www.apologeticspress.org/
Here you will find several scholarly articles relating to your subject by Ph.D's in microbiology etc.
I believe that the principles for the general theory of organic evolution include not only natural selection and survival of the fittest, but mutations adding genetic material. So, in a sense the evolutionist believes we got here through natural genetic tampering already.
Posted By: Scott from Oregon
Date: 2008-03-10 23:16:25
"Personally I subscribe to the premise that an all-knowing and all-
wise Creator God established barriers between species so that they
could not naturally cross-breed for reasons understood only entirely
by Him and for now beyond our comprehension. It is the Natural Order
of Things which He established..."
So you start out by declaring that you use "magic" and "wishful thinking" and "zero evidence belief structures" as your methodology, and then you want people to take your scientific discourse seriously?
What if I started out declaring I believed in Santa Clause and then tried to convince you that reindeer were smarter than elves?