The Dangers and Ethics of Designer Babies
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Imagine a perfect world, full of good-looking, athletic, blond-haired, blue-eyed geniuses; people who are the very definition of perfection. Yet each and every one of them is a copy of the next, molded and pieced together in a lab in order to create the ideal human beings. Science is diving head first into a new age where technology holds the power to forever change the human species, as we know it. Recent biotechnological advancements, specifically in the field of genetic engineering, could soon enable to choose certain traits and physical features of their children. This includes everything from eliminating a hereditary extra finger, to selecting the range of an IQ for a child. Scientists can now alter the DNA of plants, animals and even humans to give them more desirable traits. Needless to say, this could put an end to all forms of hereditary diseases, but, keeping human nature in mind, can we be absolutely clear in our minds that it will stop simply at that level? Genetic engineering and the so-called "science" of designer babies are undeniably wrong. Designing a child is the place of God and not of man. If parents are allowed to do this, then all parents will naturally want perfection for their children and what the parents regard as a perfect child may not include the actual interests of their future child...