re a question that has bee bothering me wquinnan sdcc ucsd edu malcusco writes my problem with science is that often it allows us to assume we know what is best for ourselves god endowed us with the ability to produce life through sexual relations for example but he did not make that availible to everyone does that mean that if science can over ride god s decision through alterations that god wills for us to have the power to decide who should and should not be able to have children should men be allowed to have babies if that is made possible in a word yes i don t believe that physical knowledge has a great deal of impact on the power of god in the past god gave us the ability to create life through sexual relations now he is giving us the ability to create life through in vitro fertilization the difference between the two is merely cosmetic and even if we gain the ability to create universes we won t begin to approach the glory of god the power we are being given is a test and i am sure that in many cases we will use our new abilities unwisely but people have been using sexuality unwisely for millenia and i haven t heard an outcry to abolish it yet no matter how far we extend our dominion over the physical world we aren t impinging on god s power it s only when we attempt to gain control of the spiritual world those things that can t be approached through science and logic that we begin to interfere with god alan terlep and the scorpion says it s oakland university rochester mi in my nature atterlep vela acs oakland edu
