More on Transhumanism and Darwin's Ape - Part II

A recent movie titled, "Splice" tells the story of two scientists who attempt to splice the DNA of humans and animals, culminating in a new being which is transhuman - half human, half animal. Neither of the two scientists have any knowledge what this new entity will really become, and since they created it clandestinely, must hide it from the view of others - first in a back room lab, eventually to an old barn out in the woods.

In the beginning, the creature is cute and adorable, resembling a little female human, although possessing a tail, along with certain other little animal characteristics. It's endearing qualities, in the beginning, evoke the maternal instincts of the female scientist. But, as it quickly reaches adulthood, it's sexual allure begins to attract the male scientist. This begins to unfold some very serious problems with this new transhuman creature, which culminate in disaster for it's creators.

Human babies begin much the same as animals, in that they are only able to act on their instincts to be nurtured in order to survive. They care less that they are waking their parents in the middle of the night, to obtain their needs. But as human children grow and develop, a higher intellect begins to unfold, with the child taking on the ability to empathize with others, and choose between right and wrong. The human child begins to transform from a self seeking little animal, to a being which can now give as well as take, and begin to learn and consider the effects of it's actions and choices. In human beings, the age of 7 yrs. has always been considered the "age of reason", at which point these abilities begin to manifest themselves in the human child.

Unfortunately, as the spliced entity of this movie begins to mature into it's adult stage, it shows no signs of attaining any of the higher attributes of it's human DNA. Instead, it remains a huge infantile creature, which merely seeks it's own gratification, backed by certain animal strengths, which now make it very dangerous to it's human creators. This, added to the creature's inability to distinguish between right and wrong, lead to violent consequences.

Mere science fiction you say? At this very moment, scientists are already splicing human DNA with animals and attempting to clone new hybrid creatures in the new frontier of "transhumanism". Apparently the scientists have no more ability to discern between right and wrong, and consider the consequences of their actions, anymore than the creature in the movie "Splice".

The movie may seem to be mere conjecture, on the part of the entertainment industry, in it's depiction of the consequences of "transhumanism"; yet, it would certainly seem that even the entertainment industry is considering these consequences, much more than the scientific community itself. Pride and the lust for power over our natural world, have left scientists failing to consider the consequences of their actions, as any 7 years old child is able to do. The movie seeks to question the ramifications of such scientific actions as splicing and cloning, which the scientific community itself prefers to ignore, in it's quest for power.

What will be the effects of such failure of consideration on the part of the scientific community? Are movies such as "Splice" and other such sci-fi entertainment all that far from the truth? Do we really want to find out?

The movie “Planet of the Apes” told the story of an apocalyptic world turned upside down, in which apes had become the rulers over human beings. Charles Darwin theorized that we originally evolved from the ape. Will we now be evolving back to Darwin’s ape? And will that new ape be more human than animal, or the other way around?