Back in the day, creating family trees was
popular,
Tracing our family relations by looking backwardly.
We didn’t have a clue then that this was just a precursor,
To tracing deeper roots via our collective biology.
With the discovery of DNA,
And sequencing of the human genome,
Tracing of family trees has given way,
To microscopes in how we search and roam.
Rather than taking backward looks... ‘from now-to-then’,
We now can see collectively... ‘from then-to-now’.
We better understand our human origin,
As through mountains of genetic data we plough.
At all the historical revelations unveiled,
I can only breathe a long, ‘So what?!’ sigh.
What are we to do with all this genetic detail?
Here’s an idea. Let’s see if it’ll fly.
We now know how to do genetic editing,
‘Cutting and pasting’ faulty DNA strands at will.
Thus, bad health outcomes we will soon be evicting.
Who knows, one day this may simply be done... with a pill!
Back to the notion of a human race genetic tree,
T’would be great if understanding where all our ancestors roamed,
Would impact for good, how I treat you, and you treat me.
Now THAT would yield real benefits from data through which we’ve combed!
But editing the source codes of life for better outcomes?
Plugging genes from one living thing into another?
It’s not hard to imagine the ‘weird life algorithms’.
Recall...
E = MC2 opened... mankind’s nuclear chapter.
What if ‘DNA’ may mean God’s ‘Do Not Alter’ warning,
And we ignore it, like other things He’s made verboten.
Man, manipulating the traits of organisms!?
What could be some eventual outcomes foreboding?!
For notions of what gene editing could create,
Imagine fire-breathing horses, with heads like lions,
And locusts with stingers, causing a prolonged ache.
Could species like these come from gene editing actions?
Before you conclude my imagination’s gone wild,
Please pause, and give Revelation chapter 9 a quick check.
Long ago, God predicted by these, humans would be riled,
In the penultimate chapter of... His ‘human project’.
Ponder this:
Tracing our family relations by looking backwardly.
We didn’t have a clue then that this was just a precursor,
To tracing deeper roots via our collective biology.
With the discovery of DNA,
And sequencing of the human genome,
Tracing of family trees has given way,
To microscopes in how we search and roam.
Rather than taking backward looks... ‘from now-to-then’,
We now can see collectively... ‘from then-to-now’.
We better understand our human origin,
As through mountains of genetic data we plough.
At all the historical revelations unveiled,
I can only breathe a long, ‘So what?!’ sigh.
What are we to do with all this genetic detail?
Here’s an idea. Let’s see if it’ll fly.
We now know how to do genetic editing,
‘Cutting and pasting’ faulty DNA strands at will.
Thus, bad health outcomes we will soon be evicting.
Who knows, one day this may simply be done... with a pill!
Back to the notion of a human race genetic tree,
T’would be great if understanding where all our ancestors roamed,
Would impact for good, how I treat you, and you treat me.
Now THAT would yield real benefits from data through which we’ve combed!
But editing the source codes of life for better outcomes?
Plugging genes from one living thing into another?
It’s not hard to imagine the ‘weird life algorithms’.
Recall...
E = MC2 opened... mankind’s nuclear chapter.
What if ‘DNA’ may mean God’s ‘Do Not Alter’ warning,
And we ignore it, like other things He’s made verboten.
Man, manipulating the traits of organisms!?
What could be some eventual outcomes foreboding?!
For notions of what gene editing could create,
Imagine fire-breathing horses, with heads like lions,
And locusts with stingers, causing a prolonged ache.
Could species like these come from gene editing actions?
Before you conclude my imagination’s gone wild,
Please pause, and give Revelation chapter 9 a quick check.
Long ago, God predicted by these, humans would be riled,
In the penultimate chapter of... His ‘human project’.
Ponder this:
Could DNA editing eventually/indirectly
touch our spiritual roots?
touch our spiritual roots?
