But there is another category of technological development—say, longing for the day when genetic engineers can splice the genes of a silverback gorilla into a developing human fetus, in search of the ultimate NFL linebacker. Such things are malum in se, wrong in themselves. And they are wrong in themselves because the people engaged in such activities are seeking to play God. They are overtly rejecting the fact of a Creator God, the words of Scripture, and the authority of natural law. What they are doing is wicked. They want to tinker with man according to their own whims, which is to say,
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