Should
there be morals in science? Is scripture a legitimate source for these morals?
Or should we rely on feeling? These are all questions that scientists, scholars
and average people grapple with daily. The world is constantly trying to find
answers to the thousands of questions they have, but they refuse to look in the
Book of Answers! If we do not get morals from God where do we get them from?
Our feelings? Is it okay to do research on people without their consent? Still
more questions rage in the minds of science lovers and doctors. What if the
research done isn't completely moral but will save tons of lives? Proverbs 1:7
says "The fear of The Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools
despise wisdom and instruction." I think that a major problem in todays
society is that we have lost our great fear and respect of our creator and as
fools we despise the wisdom and instruction He has given us. We as a people
will reap the consequences.
Now
before I advance in this exposition I must define the term science. What is the
true definition of science? Simply put, good science is the constant search for
accurate information. But we can divide that term even further into historical
science and observational science. Much can be said about these but for the purpose
of this paper I will keep it short and simple as we will mainly be focusing on
the atrocities of some experimentation in observational science. So, historical science is a
term used to describe sciences in which data is provided primarily from past events
and for which there is usually no direct experimental data. Therefore
historical science cannot ever be "proven" just as we cannot
"prove scientifically" that George Washington was our first
president. Although we can look at History and see that in fact he was.
Observational Science is theoretical, experimental and applied research related
to oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial sciences. The ultimate goal of
observational science is a better description of the world around us. It is the
study of natural processes that we can observe now. True scientist which study
this type of science are constantly searching to figure new things out to aid
the human race. This science
consists of things you can repeat. It is experimentation with a purpose.
Have
you seen that wonderful baby soap that is tear free? Ahh how sweet your baby
doesn't have any more tears in the bath because tons of cute baby rabits have
their eyelids glued open and are getting soap dropped in their eyeballs. Yes
God gave humans animals. He gave us them to care for and to help care for us.
God did not put animals not his earth for wicked people to use and abuse by
playing god. It clearly states this in Genesis as God gives humans the dominion
mandate and in Proverbs 12:10 "A righteous man regardeth the life of His
beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Even when
experimentation on animals is not necessarily harmful we must remember that men
are evil and almost anything tried on animals will eventually be tried on humans.
Genetically modified cows that do exactly what the ranchers want them to do
when they want it to do it sooner or later turns into genetically modified
babies exactly how their parents want them to look, the gender they want them
and so forth.
Nowadays
if you have enough money practically anything is possible. You may think
cloning is still in the research stages. Far from it. Cloning is happening now.
Rich men that have bad organs or simply want to live longer can pay for a
clone. They let this little human grow up for the sole purpose of harvesting
it's organs. To me this is sickening. When man decides to start trying to make
more humans it if playing God and any student of History knows that playing God
never ends well even if you have enough money to do whatever you want. Proverbs
6:16-19 tells us of seven of the things that God hates. I think these single
issue of cloning falls under every one of them. "These things doth The
Lord hate: yeah seven are ab abomination unto Him: A proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running into mischief, a false witness that speaketh
lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."
In
the end then, we need a code of ethics. And God gave us that in His Word. We
must look to the scriptural principles and guidelines this once great country
was founded on. "For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and
reproofs of instruction are the way of life." Proverbs 6:23 We must not
succumb to the pressures around us that say it is all right to do practically
anything in the name of science. I don't care what you call it. When you stick
a scissor like object up a babies neck and chop up its brains so that it is
debilitated and through it out as garbage or use it for scientific
experimentation that is murder and worse. It hurts for me to even type what I
just typed. What scum would allow that? What horrible person would preform or
have preformed that activity? The majority of America. United States lawmakers.
The leader of our nation endorses this activity! Where will we draw the line?
Where will we say "Enough!"? If we continue to let such atrocities
happen right under our noses there is no telling what might come next in the dreaded
name of science. Even if the end seems to justify the means, God never allows
for doing evil for so-called good purposes. We as humans in the image of God
must adopt morals even in so-called science. We must look to the simple yet
profound words that will speak to every circumstance. We must drench this
nation and every aspect of our lives in God's Word, His code of ethics and His
inpenitratable love. We must remember the wise words of Proverbs 11:11 "By
the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the
mouth of the wicked."
