One Step Closer to God

All this buzz about breakthroughs in stem cell research always makes me wonder. Are stem cells the next "BIG" thing? Will our generation live to see stem cells provide a pratical alternative to aging and disease? The promise of replacement parts grown from our own genetic material is very interesting.

While this breakthrough gives some people feelings of hope, it gives others feelings of dread. Some people fear what they don't know, others fear what they DO know. Some people fear what they can NEVER know. (I think I could use that last bit as lyrics for something!)

I say if you want to be a cry baby and fear everything you belong in a peasant hovel in 11th century Europe. You can sit there in the dark, not wanting to know anything except weather or not your crop of squash is going to fail. You can exist in your cosmic haunted house filled with fairies, specters, ghosts and goblins and gods, all threatening you with retribution should you try to learn what is beyond your current level of comprehension.

That being said, knowledge always comes with a price.

If stem cell research turns our world into a gloomy sifi hell of overpopulation, immortality and demon mutant clone armies, so be it. I'd rather suffer eternally for trying to be a god than die quietly in fear of my own potential.