Brave New World
March 14, 2007
It's always nice when Fundamentalists actually acknowledge the science of a thing. But really, the recent commentary by the head of the Southern Baptist Convention that it would be very Christian to utilize any scientific discoveries of genetic links to the etiology of homosexuality as the basis of engineering a cure for this "sin," isn't what I had in mind.
The 21st Century is going to see revolution in biology and biological sciences akin to the 19th Century's revolution in industry and the 20th in technology. Navigating the long term ethical dimensions of that new found knowledge is going to be hard enough for a species adapted to only thinking about near-term consequences. If we also have to deal with superstitious crap like the above "religious morality" guiding us, we're screwed.
And not in the good way.
Posted by Jody at March 14, 2007 01:39 PM
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