This Comes Way TOO Close to Playing God

Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years
Scientists Believe Artificial Life Will Be Possible in 3 to 10 Years

This would sound like something out of Sci-Fi if they weren't so serious about it.

Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy (1 of the groups trying to do this) was quoted in the article as saying this: "(T)here are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.
When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen." ( I hope we never have to find out.)

Add this to cloning, abortion, etc & it sounds like mankind is trying to play God. You'd think that the lessons of the past would be enopugh to remind us. Sadly, mankind ignores or denies the lessons ever happenned. They cut God out completely. & in the past, the results haven't been pretty.

Let's look at a few Biblical examples.

1. Why did the Flood take place? In Genesis 6:5 we see the answer. "Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long."

2. The Tower of Babel that resulted in the confusion of languages. Why did God do this? 1st of all we read in Genesis 11:4 we see the reason, pride & hubris: "Let us make a name for ourselves." God looked into the hearts of mankind & saw where this would lead: "If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume to do." (vs 6)

3. The whole book of Judges shows the results every time Israel turned its back on God & followed other gods. Yet they didn't learn. The same was true during the Monarchy.

4. After 9-11 Anne Graham was asked on The Early Show: "How could God let something like this happen?" Her response was: "I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman that He is, I believe that He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?" Basically, she is reaffirming that once again we have failed to learn from our past mistakes.

If humanity keeps this up once again we will reap exactly what we deserve. & it won't be pretty. God doesn't want it to happen. But He respects our free-will. & when we turn our backs on God, He respects our choices & allows us to bear the fruit of our actions.

The fact that we haven't yet reached that point says that it is not to late. We can repent of or pride & hubris & turn back to doing what is right & ethical. We can end abortion, we can stop using embryonic stem cells. & we can turn away from trying to create artificial life & redirect the money & efforts in areas where it will do good & not bring harm.