Running head: GENETIC ENGINEERING 1
"How Far Should Scientists Go to Modify Humans Through Genetic
Engineering?" Name
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, GENETIC 2
"How far should scientists go to modify humans through genetic engineering?"
Religion and science are one extensive place of debate where many people fail to agree.
Scientists believe that they always try to improve the creation that was left behind by God by
coming up with modifications. However, the question that arises is "considering the work of
God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?" (Ecclesiastes 7:13, ESV). Such an
argument has been realized across many religions, with many activists hitting the road to forbid
all kinds of genetic modifications. However, there are places where genetic modifications can be
of great importance. In medicine and disease elimination, the altering of human DNA has played
a substantial role in the repair of genetic predisposition of certain diseases. Such success has
been enabled through the advancement of technology in medicine. Today many diseases have
been controlled due to the creation of vaccines, although this means of drug use and test has
been affirmed to have certain harmful outcomes if there was no enough knowledge in DNA.
DNA can lead to a lot of disasters if not keenly utilized. Thus, altering humans through genetic
engineering should only be done to remedy genetic diseases.
Human testing has never been as successful as it is today. It was not until recently that
human genetic testing progressed despite the concept of genetic modification that has existed
since the 19th century. Today, genetic editing has been closely monitored and advanced
through the use of "CRISPR-Cas9." "CRISPR-Cas9" is a form of genome editing tool that has
been classified to be fast, cheaper, and particularly more accurate when compared to other
editing tools used before. Antonio Regalado (2015) presented the argument that the invention
of the "CRISPR-Cas9" has made it less difficult for scientists to effectively modify genes in
animals and progress those genetic modifications to the next generation. Such innovations are
purely
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"How Far Should Scientists Go to Modify Humans Through Genetic
Engineering?" Name
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, GENETIC 2
"How far should scientists go to modify humans through genetic engineering?"
Religion and science are one extensive place of debate where many people fail to agree.
Scientists believe that they always try to improve the creation that was left behind by God by
coming up with modifications. However, the question that arises is "considering the work of
God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?" (Ecclesiastes 7:13, ESV). Such an
argument has been realized across many religions, with many activists hitting the road to forbid
all kinds of genetic modifications. However, there are places where genetic modifications can be
of great importance. In medicine and disease elimination, the altering of human DNA has played
a substantial role in the repair of genetic predisposition of certain diseases. Such success has
been enabled through the advancement of technology in medicine. Today many diseases have
been controlled due to the creation of vaccines, although this means of drug use and test has
been affirmed to have certain harmful outcomes if there was no enough knowledge in DNA.
DNA can lead to a lot of disasters if not keenly utilized. Thus, altering humans through genetic
engineering should only be done to remedy genetic diseases.
Human testing has never been as successful as it is today. It was not until recently that
human genetic testing progressed despite the concept of genetic modification that has existed
since the 19th century. Today, genetic editing has been closely monitored and advanced
through the use of "CRISPR-Cas9." "CRISPR-Cas9" is a form of genome editing tool that has
been classified to be fast, cheaper, and particularly more accurate when compared to other
editing tools used before. Antonio Regalado (2015) presented the argument that the invention
of the "CRISPR-Cas9" has made it less difficult for scientists to effectively modify genes in
animals and progress those genetic modifications to the next generation. Such innovations are
purely
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