While humanity finds more inhumane and destructive ways of annihilating itself, conversely it also seeks out ways to escape that annihilation through some sort of continued thread of immortality. One can only imagine the furthered accomplishments of Einstein on his study of physical relativity if he had been graced with 25-50 more years. What would be the artwork left behind by Picasso or the new film visions of Stanley Kubrick, had they been able to submit to a few more earthly years of existence?
While some ancient civilizations constructed monoliths and statuary dedicated to the relevance of their civilizationÆs immortality, and some ancient rulers dedicated their rule to the building of great structures to imprint their immortality upon the face of the earth, the human desire to live beyond our mere mortality has driven us to great lengths on the plane of scientific discovery. While some have searched outer space, others have searched inner space. While some have studied THE universe, others have dedicated their lives to the molecular sphere and the duplication of man. We call this study genetics and the dream of every geneticist is to eventually duplicate a programmable human being.
ôOnce we can clone exact replicas of ourselves, the next step will be to transfer our memory and personality into our newly cloned brains, which will allow us to truly live forever. Since we will be able to remember all our past, we will be able to accumulate knowledge ad infinitum. Thus today, manÆs ultimate dream of eternal life, which past religions lonely promised after death in mythical paradise, becomes a scientific reality.ö (Gary, Nadine, 2001)
If we are, in fact, this close to the reality of cloning, are we not, this close then to the allegory of creation as literated in the Bible?
[22] And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take...