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(A large number of articles have already been presented concerning the importance of watching for events 1260 + 1335 years from the fall of Jerusalem. Seen the article on "2012" as an example.)
("Pentecost" is when God gave the law to Moses on Mount Sinai and when God breathed life into the Church by "a mighty rushing wind", and so, perhaps it is fitting that men announced their creation of life on that same day. The other date, that of the fall of Jerusalem, appears to be a portent of death.)
Three things of importance that occurred on May 20, 2010:
1. The stock market plummeted the most in a very long time.
2. The creation of the first artificial life was announced.
http://news.bbc.co.u...nt/10138831.stm
3. ??? A strange creature was discovered in our province "earlier this month" that may be a sign of strange creatures to come created by man?
http://travel.canoe....1/14035496.html
"A strange and ugly creature has washed ashore in a northern Ontario First Nations community and it is being treated as a bad omen."
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The following is a partial quote from the BBC.
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We have now accomplished the last piece on the list that was required to do what ethicists called "playing God". What that literally means is the capacity to be a creator.
There are a number of people who will find that very fact in itself terrifying. Many believe there ought to be certain areas that ought to be left alone. This is one of those areas where you can do things vastly before you consider their implications.
There are obviously very important ethical issues. This work has proceeded without any real regulation at all. The bad guys are out there. Weaponising all sorts of things will be much, much easier.
The science is flying 30,000 feet over the public's understanding of the ethics. Scientists can be their own worst enemy by using words like "clone" or "synthetic life".
This isn't a case of rogue scientists, this is a group that is extremely well known, incredibly well respected.
You are going to have to help scientists with education so this thing doesn't become a national or international threat.
[That is] the way to fend off the Luddites that would say this and any other genetic research is awful - these people will be harder to fend off because more safeguards haven't been made.
There are a number of people who will find that very fact in itself terrifying. Many believe there ought to be certain areas that ought to be left alone. This is one of those areas where you can do things vastly before you consider their implications.
There are obviously very important ethical issues. This work has proceeded without any real regulation at all. The bad guys are out there. Weaponising all sorts of things will be much, much easier.
The science is flying 30,000 feet over the public's understanding of the ethics. Scientists can be their own worst enemy by using words like "clone" or "synthetic life".
This isn't a case of rogue scientists, this is a group that is extremely well known, incredibly well respected.
You are going to have to help scientists with education so this thing doesn't become a national or international threat.
[That is] the way to fend off the Luddites that would say this and any other genetic research is awful - these people will be harder to fend off because more safeguards haven't been made.
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The development nonetheless engaged the attention of President Obama who on Thursday asked the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to "undertake, as its first order of business, a study of the implications of this scientific milestone, as well as other advances that may lie ahead in this field of research."
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