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Medical Students /Paediatric notes
Safespace Interview on Biotechnology: Are We Playing God?
Biotechnology is both a blessing and a curse to modern man. But, how do we, as Christians, tackle this ethical dilemma? Are we playing God when we use Biotechnologies to manipulate life?
Biotechnology began in antiquity when people used yeast to produce leavened
bread. In 1857, Louis Pasteur discovered how this fermentation process worked.
Today, we employ biotechnology to cure diseases, feed the world’s population,
restore the environment, and produce fuel. Biotechnology impacts our daily life
in a myriad of ways. Yet the same biotechnology that brings cures and
conveniences often raises ethical concerns.
While previously the major bioethical issues confronting Christians are
concerned with the destruction of innocent human life, both at the beginning of
life in abortion, and at the end of life in euthanasia, today we have a range of
new troubling bioethical dilemmas that have arisen over the last thirty years.
So instead of just talking about the destruction of human life (whatever one may
mean with ‘life’), we are now debating over the ethics in the technological
advances to create and manipulate human life ie reproductive technologies,
cloning, and stem cell research.
Are we playing God when we change the genetic blueprint of bacteria for human
benefit? Or when we are allowed to select the sex of a future child? When we
allow this progress to overwrite what formerly only God knows and could do, are
we in danger of going down the slippery slope? God created human beings in his
image- so when we clone a human being, whose image is this creation?
Alexa Ho speaks with Dr Alex Tang on this interesting topic.
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Reproductive technologies, stem cell therapies, cloning… these are just some of the technological advances that have often raised ethical concerns. Are these the current trending issues of the bioethics and what are we to make of them? Tune into part one of our conversation with Dr Alex Tang on “Biotechnology: Are we playing God?”
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Safespace Interview on Biotechnology: Are We Playing God? Part 2
Changing the genetic blueprint of bacteria for human benefit. Allowed to select the sex of a future child. When we allow this progress to overwrite what formerly only God knows and could do, are we in danger of going down the slippery slope?Tune into part two of our conversation with Dr Alex Tang on “Biotechnology: Are we playing God?” to find out.
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Safespace Interview on Biotechnology: Are We Playing God? Part 3
What should be the core guiding principle to christians seeking to faithful God’s stewards of his creation and knowledge he has given us, and that includes science? Tune into part three of our conversation with Dr Alex Tang on “Biotechnology: Are we playing God?” to find out.
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Safespace Interview on Biotechnology: Are We Playing God? Full interview
Biotechnology is both a blessing and a curse to modern man. But, how do we, as Christians, tackle this ethical dilemma? Are we playing God when we use Biotechnologies to manipulate life? In this episode, Alexa Ho sits with Dr Alex Tang to talk about the breakthroughs of biotechnology and how should the church navigate its many ethical challenges that ensue. Listen in to our episode “Biotechnology: Are we playing God?”
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