DNA Mutation

Dioxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the building block of life as we know it. DNA is important in many religious, medical, and scientific fields. Many religious groups recognize DNA as the creation of God, and as such, seek to keep it intact as God made it. Many medical professionals and scientists who fail to recognize God have no qualms with altering the DNA of animals and humans as long as their activities are permitted by bioethicists. The fields of gene editing, gene splicing, genetically modified organisms and foods, chimeras, cloning technologies, and cyborgism have been created, researched, and in some cases marketed to the public.

Transhumanists seek to use these technologies to cure death. They have no respect for their human DNA nor the telomeres (the easiest analogy is to look at a the end of a shoe string, understanding that when that cap is gone the shoe string unravels; the same thing occurs over time to the cap of DNA when it is unzippped and recombined through natural processes in the cell’s mitochondria) of their DNA and seek to mutate and alter it to enable radical life-extension.

The Center for the Preservation of Humanity, in part through social activism and educational efforts to inform the public of the inherent dangers of mutating humanity’s DNA, in part with legal and legislative efforts to place a permanent ban on any future efforts in these arenas, seek to reevaluate the ethical justifications used to develop technologies and products in these fields.