The Menace of Knowledge or the Ridiculous Search for the Elixir of Live Science is always evolving and sometimes scientific research enter in areas that are morally and ethically questionable. The tweak in our genome code with the purpose of extend human life, is one of these ethically questionable researches. According to the article Programming Genes to Extend Life Span by Charles Platt “…In the future, we will be able to control (i.e., reprogram) our genes as readily as we do our computers. Some scientists believe that as a result of this, humans may theoretically remain young and healthy for very much longer than they do today. …” On the book Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly the protagonist is faced with comparable
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The religion, is the Yoruba religion and the story said that Olofin, the creator of the universe, creates life but he forgot to create death. People where living and populating the planet but nobody was dying. Humans were living hundreds of years and Olofin saw that the majority of the people were unhappy. The reason for this unhappiness was that the older people were still ruling and everybody else had to fallow their old rules. The younger people was sad and their sadness was so big that Olofin became aware of it. He saw that the world was not as perfect as he has planned so he called Iku to help him solve the problem. Iku fallowing Olofin’s commands made the clouds start raining and it was raining for thirty days and thirty nights. Only the young was able to climb the higher trees and go to the higher mountains and the old perished during the flood. After that the young people saw that the world was more clean and beautiful and they all ran to thank Iku, because he had finished immortality. I’m not a religious person but, there is a very wise massage behind this story. Humans have evolved over the years and we have come to live, according to the article Human Lifespans Nearly Constant for 2,000 Years by Benjamin Radford, a life span in America, that “…in 2007 it reached 75.5 years …”. According to …show more content…
Eternal life is appealing idea for a lot of people, but quality of life is a better gold to strive for. It is better to live sixty good years than a hundred miserable
The religion, is the Yoruba religion and the story said that Olofin, the creator of the universe, creates life but he forgot to create death. People where living and populating the planet but nobody was dying. Humans were living hundreds of years and Olofin saw that the majority of the people were unhappy. The reason for this unhappiness was that the older people were still ruling and everybody else had to fallow their old rules. The younger people was sad and their sadness was so big that Olofin became aware of it. He saw that the world was not as perfect as he has planned so he called Iku to help him solve the problem. Iku fallowing Olofin’s commands made the clouds start raining and it was raining for thirty days and thirty nights. Only the young was able to climb the higher trees and go to the higher mountains and the old perished during the flood. After that the young people saw that the world was more clean and beautiful and they all ran to thank Iku, because he had finished immortality. I’m not a religious person but, there is a very wise massage behind this story. Humans have evolved over the years and we have come to live, according to the article Human Lifespans Nearly Constant for 2,000 Years by Benjamin Radford, a life span in America, that “…in 2007 it reached 75.5 years …”. According to …show more content…
Eternal life is appealing idea for a lot of people, but quality of life is a better gold to strive for. It is better to live sixty good years than a hundred miserable