Is man playing God?

Question

If you look back in History, people died between the ages of 40-60. Now people are living beyond a100 years. In Nature everything lives in harmony and it is the strongest who survive. Are humans defying the ballance of nature?

Answer 1

You're right since medicine progressed people's life expectancy has increased so on average people are dieing of natural causes older than they would have 30 years ago. People are not staying alive because they are health enough to but by the aid of medicine and operations that have developed along the years. This also defies the balance because people live longer but new babies are still being born. This is resulting in overpopulation. We can't complain though cause we benefit from it.

Answer 2

Absolutely...

In the medicine...cloning...changing the constitution...legalizing gay marriages...it is all sinful and in obomination to the Lord.

Our leaders...our scientists...our Big Medical Research companies...they are all trying to be God.

They need to leave those things alone and allow God to be God...

I will be so happy when Jesus returns to take me out of this vile and wretched world that man has put in ruins.

It starts with our president and runs downhill. Our government is corrupt and by the words of prophecy, it will not get any better.

You want out of this cruel world? Repent and be saved by the Blood of Jesus and escape the bondage and captivity of eternal hell.

It all involves a simple prayer asking forgivess and believing with a true heart that Jesus died for your sins and yet lives today. He is coming back for a church without spot of wrinkle. It is by the blood of Jesus that man must be saved to see the Kingdom of God.

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Answer 3

I think humans are a part of nature just as anything else. Therefore, there actions to prolong life should be viewed as a part of the darwinistic theory, ¨survival of the fittest¨. Man cannot play god because god is everything, the pure essence of nature; which man plays a humble role in.

Answer 4

As was once said in a Monty Python skit, "'Tis a silly question..."
Humans live longer, healthier, happier lives now because of the studious application of science and technology to our daily lives. Late 19th- and early 20th-century improvements in public sanitation, coupled with vast improvements in the sciences of medicine and agriculture, have led us to the point that famine is (for the first time in history) no longer a threat, and most illness in the Western world is due to prosperity.
Your third sentence contradicts itself. Everything does not live in harmony in the natural world. Species all over the globe continually use their natural advantages to crowd each other out, if not kill each other, in order to survive. There is no "balance" in nature; it is continually stressed, and the equation is always changing.
I've met people in Africa and southeast Asia who live in "harmony with nature" but would GLADLY change places with anyone in the Western world.
Should we go back to the days when people shivered in huts made of mud and straw, living in filth and poverty, dying early of easily preventable infectious diseases, working 12-16 hour days just to stave off famine, bereft of all the advantages of science and technology, just so we can avoid disturbing some ill-defined "natural balance"?
Or should we use humans' natural advantage - our big brains and capacity for reason/logic - to make our lives better, curtail famine and disease, live in clean and climate-controlled environments, improve our productivity with technology, create a better Earth on which to live, and eventually reach for outer space?
The choice is yours.

Answer 5

My ancestors (and many others) lived to be well over 90 years old, so not much has changed really. The survival rate for babies and children was horrendously low through disease and malcare though, which brought down the average life span considerably. Perhaps we are just able to look after our youngsters better.

Answer 6

Yes I really think you've the Nail on the Head, so to speak.
& the planet is becoming over-populated as a result.

We may well be saving & prolonging lives which in it's self seems a noble thing to do, but should we?

Answer 7

we are defying nature, but no where in the bible does it say that is a bad thing. i also dont like the phrase "playing god" what does it mean? doing what God does?, cause God helped people does that make helping people "playing God?" it really shouldn't matter what you do if it helps the world and you do it out of love and honesty

Answer 8

We are defying the balance of nature, but not by living longer. It's only natural that a species would take advantage of any advantage they have for longevity. Our advantage is our brain.

What is defying the balance of nature is totalitarian agriculture.

Answer 9

God doesn't exist. Man is using scientific knowledge to improve the lives of billions of people worldwide. It's too bad that some people think that's a bad thing.

Answer 10

Yes they are, but not in the sense you mean, we live longer because we are better at what we do, we have better Medical understanding, our food is better, the work we do is easier, we have hearing in our houses, our whole life is better, this is because we have learnt these things, not because we are playing God. but man is playing God in others areas, but that's another question