do christians have a problem with this?

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061201180713.htm

apparently you can do some sort of chemical process that takes the iron out of a certain blood protein and replaces it with zinc. then you genetically modify another blood protein that naturally interacts with that first one and the result is a molecule that can…

separate hydrogen from its oxygen when exposed to sunlight. creating hydrogen in an efficient way is the big obstacle in the way of our fuel revolution, and this looks like a step towards the solution.

the “problem” is you apparently need some sort of human biological processes to do it. and as we all know, the human body is the temple of the holy spirit, and if you do anything to it at all, like heroin, tobacco or anal sex, you ought to be burned at the stake.

so what if we create artificial blood machines with like bone marrow and hearts and livers or whatever, but no brain. and we make them all crazy-like by changing around the dna (much like gods own UV rays might do by accident). will christians create a big stink and use their theocracy to destroy progress? or does the bible say genetic engineering is ok?

christians?

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I have no problem with it, but I’d make a machine to artificially circulate blood in itself and separate the hydrogen, instead of doing it in the human body. Not because of a holy temple thing, but because it could potentially be harmful to the person to change something like that within the body.

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Actually that is kind of badass.

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I await the day when I don’t have to eat because the nano-machines in my blood release the correct amount of nutrients at regular intervals. I’m all for human augmentation as long as we proceed cautiously and with extremely rigorous prior testing on other animals.

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Future Man, you’re confusing Christians with Jehovah’s Witnesses, they’re the ones with the body is a temple craziness, refuse blood transfusions, etc.