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The Pig-Man Cometh

During this past year, it was revealed that biotechnology researchers had successfully created a hybrid of a human being and a pig. A man-pig. A pig-man. The reality is is so unspeakable, the words themselves don't want to go together.

 Extracting the nuclei of cells from a human fetus and inserting them into a pig's egg cells, scientists from an Australian company called Stem Cell Sciences and an American company called Biotransplant grew two of the pig-men to 32-cell embryos before destroying them. The embryos would have grown further, the scientists admitted, if they had been implanted in the womb of either a sow or a woman. Either a sow or a woman. A woman or a sow.

There has been some suggestion from the creators that their purpose in designing this human pig is to build a new race of subhuman creatures for scientific and medical use. The only intended use is to make animals, the head of Stem Cell Sciences, Peter Mountford, claimed, backpedaling furiously once news of the pig-man leaked of the European Union's patent office. Since the creatures are 3 percent pig, laws against the use of people as research subjects would not apply. But since they are 97 percent human. Experiments could be profitably undertaken upon them and they could be used as living meat-lockers for transplantable organs and tissue.

But then, too, there has been some suggestion that the creators' purpose is not so much to corrupt humanity as to elevate it. The creation of the pig-man is proof that we can overcome the genetic barriers that once prevented cross-breeding between humans and other species. At last, then, we may begin to design a new race of beings with perfections that the mere human species lacks: increased strength, enhanced beauty, extended range of life, immunity from disease. "In the extreme theoretical sense," Mountford admitted, the embryos could have been implanted into a woman to become a new kind of human - though, of course, he reassured the Australian media, something like that would be" ethically immoral and it's not something that our company or any respectable scientist would pursue."

But what difference does it make whether the researchers' intention is to create subhumans or superhumans? Either they want to make a race of slaves, or they want to make a race of masters. Either way, it means the end of our humanity.

You can't say we weren't warned. This is the island of Dr. Moreau.[1] This is the brave new world. This is Dr. Frankenstein's chamber. This is Dr. Jekyll's room.[2]This is Satan's Pandemonium, the city of self-destruction, the rebel angels wrought in their all-consuming pride.But now that it has actually come - manifest, inescapable, real - there don't seem to be words that can describe its horror sufficiently to halt it. May God have mercy on us, for our modern Moreaus - our proud bio-technicians, our most advanced genetic scientists - have already announced that they will have no mercy.

 
[1] The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells. Synopsis: Prendrick, a survivor of a shipwreck, is picked up by a schooner bound for Noble's Isle. On the island, pendrick encounters the Beast People, roughly human but with animalistic traits. It turns out that Dr. Moreau, a scientist who came to the island years before, has been developing animals into humans with the help of his assistant Montgomery. When Moreau is killed, the Beast People revert and their world becomes utterly chaotic. Pendrick, while imagining himself to remain a cut above the Beast People, becomes bestial himself. He is rescued from the island, but cannot shake off the perverse vision of the Beast People as he continues his life among men.

[2] The humanitarian Dr. Henry Jekyll becomes obsessed with separating the good from the evil in every man and creates a drug that releases in himself the demonically evil of Mr. Hyde.

"The wicked strut about, when vileness is exalted on every side." (Psalm 12:8)
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