The Present and much Later

In one of the biggest modern medicine breakthroughs in recent times, a baby girl was born. Not a normal baby girl...not by a long way. For all the aeons past chance and inheritance alone decided the attributes of a new-born. This time however it was different, for a certain defect in the baby's genetic make-up was screened out by man. And where a 'jealous' God would have let the child be born with the spectre of breast cancer hovering over her head before she even became a woman...man chose mercy, and made sure she would not be subject to this blight.

Genetics would be such a powerful scientific tool for the future...if only it were given a free rein. Unfortunately with the US Govt. putting a ban on transgenics and stem cell research it will be some time before results start coming through. The main opposition to scientific progress has always been religion...Those who say science and religion complement each other and can co-exist are merely ignorant. Science while not outrightly denying the existence of God doesn't accept it, it believes in evolution as opposed to intelligent design, it constantly discovers new laws to govern the behaviour of matter instead of holding on to old ones , and in science most of the things are open to question, whereas in religion everything is to be done 'by the book'. Science and religion are mutually incompatible so one day the inferior will have to go, and in an educated world people will soon realize that it is the latter.

Man steps beyond the fog of ignorance, what will he find? The pioneer emerges into a future designed and purified by science. He goes into the oxygen rich fields of transpirating fauna, with the bright rays of the sun providing the catalyst for these lower organisms to create food for all of mankind and ask himself...what could lie ahead....

There will come a time when the world will be completely tamed and man's mechanical limbs and mental slaves will have abilities far beyond his own. When the parameters needed to control his environment will be far too many for his accidently designed brain to handle, he will turn to his machines. It is evident even today...machines carry out thousands of instructions in the time it takes us to blink and of course, physically, automatons are already far superior to human workers in all but the most skilled of jobs.

However there seems to be a limitation on the thinking ability of machines. Electronic brains though well-equipped to juggle millions of bytes of data for weather analysis and directing the course of a missile or an aeroplane still seem dull...incapable of higher thought. But then at that time, mothered by machines will we ask ourselves what is higher thought...thoughts of a God who doesn't exist?Our confusion?Our strange gamut of emotions that no one can satisfactorily explain? Maybe the machines pitying man's futility will create something vast that he can ponder upon. Maybe they will fill it with capabilities of billions of supercomputers.....maybe it shall know everything....maybe it shall be everywhere.....maybe it shall be capable of anything.....maybe after many years, our automatons will make us our God.