Only One Life!
HERE ARE SOME DIRECT CONCLUSIONS DERIVED FROM THE MECHANICAL D N A REPLICATION PROCESS:
CONCLUSION 1:
There is no death in the DNA replication process.
CONCLUSION 2:
There is no new life created during the replication process.
CONCLUSION 3:
All living DNA today has been alive since the first life.
CONCLUSION 4:
All of the cells in the human body contain the same life.
CONCLUSION 5:
There is only one life and it is shared by all living things.
CONCLUSION 6:
A philosophy that satisfies the needs of the human must also include all other life.
CONCLUSION 7:
Mutations do not alter the fact that the same life is carried forward when DNA replicates, even though the form of the resulting organism has changed.
CONCLUSION 8:
If a man-made machine forms a new string of DNA which is a direct copy of an existing living form, and it lives (is able to reproduce and survive), it is the same life that dwells within this new string as in the DNA which has been copied.
* PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS
# The human's concept of the human, and its position in the universe, is basic to all cultural thought.
# It is not that the human needs to take care of all other life as a moral obligation, though that is certainly true, it is that the human is a small part of life, but one which possesses a characteristic (intelligence) which is valuable to the survival and well being of all life. It was life which developed that intelligence, not the human, therefore its service is for all life, not merely the human. The human is, in that sense, a servant to life, a caretaker in the service of life, the good shepherd for all of life.
REFERENCES:
# For a primer on the net, try GENETIC PRIMER
# For a detailed reference, see Molecular Biology of The Cell by Alberts, Bray, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, and Watson - Garland Publishing, 717 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10022 - ISBN 0-8153-1619-4
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