Guiding Biogenetics

According to New Scientists (Aug 28 2010) China is investing in biogenetics in a massive way. Supposedly a document from the Chinese Academy of Sciences says that the goal of their biogenetic research is to enable large-scale medical procedures which will "rectify the physical and physiological weaknesses of the Chinese people." Meanwhile in the West we debate whether to use stem cells to prevent disease.

Will the Chinese seek merely better workers? That is not nearly enough. There is a place for philosophy and religion in science but not to stop research in biogenetics. It is to help guide biogenetics toward the evolution of life to Godhood. We need to evolve higher intelligences, higher consciousness and refined complexity, evolving to the Absolute of these things, which is Godhood.

This is the biogenetics of the Evolutionary Outward Path, affirmed in the Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC). The Involutionary Inward Path of traditional religion is the Path of blocking the material world, including evolution, so that we may better see the God Within. This is affirmed too in EC, but it is time for the next stage of religion, where theological materialism takes man to Godhood in the Kosmos, whom we first encountered in the Inward Path.