7 Shocking Experiments: Wired Magazine

The full title on the cover of the August issue of WIRED is 

Extreme Science
7 Shocking Experiments That Would Teach Us So Much
(If They Weren't So Wrong)

The cover tagline for the Aug 2011 issue is: Ethics, Shmetics

The article inside says that, "nurture vs. nature, the causes of mental illness, even the mystery of how humans evolved from monkeys. These discoveries are just sitting out there, waiting for us to find them, if only we were willing to lose our souls." Why the article doesn't exactly advocate doing them, it does say, "don't pretend you wouldn't like to learn the secrets that these experiments would reveal." The Seven:

1) Spilt up twins after the moment of birth--and then control every aspect of their environments. This would benefit psychology enormously.

2) Remove brain cells from a live subject to analyze which genes are switched on and are off. 

3) Insert a tracking agent into a human embryo to monitor its development. (Discover how a tiny clump of cells transforms into a fully formed human being.)

4) Use beams of light to control the activity of brain cells in conscious human beings. (This would involve an open-skull session with focused beams into brain tissue to see how you respond...)

5) Switch the embryos of obese women with those of thin women. (Is obesity genetic or epigenetic?)

6) Test each new chemical on a wide range of human volunteers before it comes on the market. (Better than mice...)

7) Cross-breed a human with a chimpanzee. "Its outcome would take biologists deep into the origin of the species we care about most: ourselves. Let's just hope we can find a less disturbing route to get there."

 

Comments

[Deacon Michael D. Harmon]

They are "shocking" now. Will they be as shocking in 20 years? 10? 5?

[Michael Bauman (not Dr.)]

Of course, even the ability of these 'experiments' to determine anything is based on philosphical naturalism. Life is not simply a material reality. It is both a mystery and a gift. No amount of experiments will ever yield the 'secrets' Only prayer, worship and repentance before God.

However, it is to be expected that materialists will continue with there perverse desires, destroying whatever they say the wish to understand in the process. It is the dark lie of satan.

[B Cody]

They are already 'cross breeding' humans with animals...did you see the article?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2017818/Embryos-involving-genes-animals-mixed-humans-produced-secretively-past-years.html

To the Touchstone/Salvo/Mere Thoughts crew: What are believers to think of this? How should a pastor respond? I am getting questions from my congregation.

[Sibyl]

I was going to post the link about animal/human hybrids. That this experimentation would be legally permitted is a horrible indictment of Western culture and a sign of our brazen inhumanity and the loss of Christianity and fear of GOD - that we value and respect human life so little.

We have progressed from abortion, euthanasia to eugenics, from divorce to cohabitation and children out of wedlock to same-sex 'marriage' to unrepentant 'gays,' even clergy, promoting homosexuality to animal/human hybrids. Next, polyamorous, intergenerational, interspecies 'marriage'.

Trampling GOD's holy boundaries always has severe consequences. We do not break GOD's laws, we only break ourselves in the attempt.