Aritificial Humans and Abortion

I subscribe to a daily email-newsletter run by the Family Research Council. It gives updates on what’s happening at the moment in government and science and stuff of the sort. So today there was an article that said a researcher named Craig Venter (some random scientist guy) claims to have created an artificial chromosone which he is going to use to make an artificial life form (some bacteria-like organism). It went on to say that maybe we as Christians should start thinking about where science is going.

This is actually a very legitimate point. I mean, what would we do if suddenly scientists were making artificial humans with impaired intelligence to do all the hard labor and dirty work for us? Would we consider these creations humans capable of salvation, or animals? It would raise gigantic moral dilemnas for us.

Now this may seem off-topic, but it isn’t, so bear with me. Why do you think most Christians are pro-life? Think about it for a moment. Probably the first response would be that because abortion is murder. But really, that’s what the entire abortion issue is, whether or not an unborn is a human with rights or not. I have a simple solution to this point that probably most Christians wouldn’t think of. What makes a person? I think that you are your soul. You aren’t your body, or your brain, or anything like that, but you are your soul. As soon as a new-born is concieved, God somehow attaches a soul to it. Murder is killing the body that a soul is attached to, so, according to that chain of reasoning, abortion is blatant murder.

Why are these two in the same post? Because I don’t think people will ever be able to make people. Or animals for that matter. This is because I think we are souls. We aren’t bodies. Humans may one day be able to create empty-soul-less bodies, but that would be pretyty useless.

This is kind of random, but I just thought of an interesting example of this. I watched an anime show called ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ for a while. The series consists of about 50 half-hour episodes, and I watched the last 25. A sidenote, this is by far the best tv show I have ever seen, cause it has a very serious complicated theme, can make me laugh really hard sometimes, and can make me almost cry sometimes. Excellent show. Anyways. It’s all about alchemy, which is sort of like magic made into a science. There are people called ‘alchemists’ who draw all these symbols and stuff and change different elements into different elements. So a huge theme of the show is bringing humans back to life. Alchemists attempt to create people who they lost out of their ashes or dust or bodies or something. But the problem is, that people are their souls. So the alchemists always accidentally make these evil, imortal, souless things that many times end up killing them.

All that to support my point that people aren’t just bodies, but souls.