Would it be immoral to create artificial life from artificial DNA and artificial cells?

Question

Organic cell created by man.

Sorry about being unclear.

Answer 1

I'll assume you mean human life, because gene splicing is common in lower life forms.

To create a human this way would be amoral. But either way, the townspeople are likely to come at night with torches and pitchforks. This is also the likely reaction to anyone publicly extending their lives by manipulating DNA, or even organ transplants. It may seem that transplants are publicly accepted, but watch the reactions when public figure gets preferential treatment.

Any immorality would arise from how the person would be taught to live in society, and his respect for God. If that person felt alienated, look out, we'd have a whole new form of bigotry on our hands.

Answer 2

By "artificial" do you mean inorganic? Or simply an organic cell, but put together by man? Either way, no I don't find it immoral at all. What could be immoral about creating life? How we treat that life later may be a different story, but that has nothing to do with its creation.

Answer 3

Impossible unless what you're referring to is called a "Robot" buddy. There's no such thing as artificial cells that can do the work of a real cell. Nature can't be beat in it's ultimate design there, we can't make all those perfect parts small enough.

Answer 4

I don't know if it would be immoral but I think it would be unwise. The first thing the question made me think of was the old '80's movie War Games. Doing something like that could be more harm than good.

Answer 5

I'd like to comment about the first answer posted. We don't know all aspects of God's will. If God didn't want us cloning and doing other stuff, why'd he give us the capabili ty to do so? We know that God disapproves of murder, but the Bible never thoroughly mentions biochemistry.

Answer 6

Some would say immoral--some of us would say scary.

Answer 7

Yes it would be because you are messing with Gods will.