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T HE BR AVE NE W WORLD 29 And it’s the world Jesus Christ bids us enter. He tells us in Matthew 5:13 – 16, “You are the salt of the earth. . You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. ” And as you do, “they will see,” it says in the last part of verse 16. Blind eyes, deaf ears, and calloused hearts will be changed. But still, we need a clear ethical grid, something that will show us who we should be and what we should be doing in matters of science, health, and life.
For the second time in two minutes, I had presented Larry King with the chance to provide his audience with a fascinating educational opportunity. Had he followed up — even skeptically demanding proof or examples — I could have told him about the forty-five diseases already 28 PAR T ONE: T HE BR AVE NE W WORLD being treated with adult-tissue therapies. I could have told him about human heart patients and people with Parkinson’s who are enjoying amazing degrees of recovery. I could even have mentioned that sickle-cell anemia now has a 95 percent cure rate using stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
That’s why we are uniquely placed to help our society decide how to handle biotech and its challenges. It’s also why 50 PAR T ONE: T HE BR AVE NE W WORLD Christians should not find it difficult to get their bearings on the moral issues in this debate. If the biotech agenda is all about what it means to be human, so is Genesis, and the beginning of Genesis especially. In Genesis we find the keys to our understanding of what it means to be human, to be made by God, to be serving him in his world.