“Divine” Advice
A team of scientists based in London deleted a gene from twenty-five human embryos using the gene editing CRISPR (an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”). Within two weeks they were alarmed to discover numerous unintended edits which would likely lead to birth defects and even cancer later in life. They were all killed immediately.
The news led a gene-editing expert from University of California at Berkeley to exclaim, “This is a restraining order for all genome editors to stay the living daylights away from human embryo editing!” Well said, but he and the others missed an even more important point: by experimental research on human embryos created in the image of God, these scientists sacrificed the lives of twenty-five children on the altar of science.
Source: Answers Magazine Vol. 15, No. 4 (Oct-Dec, 2020), p. 27.
