PROGRESSIONS

Sex
Once, thousands of years ago, people had sex and took their chances.  Maybe some didn't even know it caused pregnancy.  They had babies.

Then, hundreds of years ago, primitive forms of birth control were tried and invented.  Some worked and some didn't, I suppose.  Medicine was crude and so were their prophylactic measures.

Then, seventy-five or one hundred years ago, more sophisticated means of birth control were devised; prophylactic condoms, pills, IUDs.   The medical community had developed a better grasp of the workings of pregnancy and infant development.

Then, twenty or thirty years ago, we started freezing sperm and then eggs and then fertilized eggs.  Humans took control of the onset of the process.

Pretty much, that's where we stand today.  The next big step is greater understanding of the human genome. Man will not only want to have control of  'if or not' and 'when' but 'what kind' and then 'with what features'.  Don't expect this progression to stop or even slow down.  If it can be done, man will do it.  Are we playing God?  I don't think so.  Men are made to the image and likeness of God.   I think man was made to constantly seek new frontiers to constantly progress.

o.o