Seen Any Chimeras Lately?

I found the article in the Op-Ed section of yesterday's Boston Globe, The Chimera Question by Vivek Ramaswamy, a recent graduate of Harvard pretty frightening. A chimera, a human-animal hybrid, has been present in science fiction for some time. You might be surprised to learn that chimeras are no longer the fanciful invention of science fiction writers.

Ramaswamy informs us that "Unbenownst to most Americans, today the creation of human-animal chimeras represents a valuable experimental tool that could revolutionize science and medicine." The author informs us that some of the greatest potential advances of creating chimeras lay in the area of neuroscience. Scientists at Stanford have already created a mouse that has some human cells as part of its brain.

Without the understanding of humans as being spiritual beings, the ethical limits of what science is allowed to do I think will almost assuredly lead to terrible results. I think that people of all faiths need to be intimately involved in what is going on and not leaving it up to the scientists nor the professional ethicists or we may well live a world that is even scarier than science fiction.