A Real Live Mad Scientist

I don't envy Dawn Eden much with regard to her New York stomping grounds, but I have to admit that it's fertile ground for blogging fodder. Last night, for example, she met Dr. James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA. Her description of the encounter is chilling.

I don't believe that Dr. Watson's Nobel Prize and all the accolades he's accumulated here on earth are going to help him much when it comes time for him to defend his views before God about the commodification of life. I'm sure there's a better theological or philosophical term for it, but the guy creeps me out.

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Typical technocrat, an elitist to the core. I suppose he'd be the first one to seriously suggest physicist Dr. Stephen J. Hawking is biologically unfit to exist.

Pity Dawn Eden didn't think to ask him to explain a man like Dr. Hawking.

What's this I see? Dr. Watson clearly has male pattern baldness. If truly believed in his eugenic fantasies, he wouldn't have had children in the first place since his own DNA sequence contains such flaws.

Like so many scientists, he conveniently forgets all the times science has had to reverse its previously held "facts" in the face of new data.

So... "he's never seen a soul in a test tube" has he? Neither have I. Then again, I have enough common sense not to presume that a spark of the Divine is so easily scrutinized.

Again, that sort of arrogance is quite common among "those who are foolish enough to believe they are wise".

Oh, he's going to be in for an awful, awful shock when his physical body fails. Imagine the horror of a man who is forced to realize that not only do souls exist, but there also exists a Judge of them.

I suspect an even more unpleasant shock will follow the first, shortly thereafter.

Posted by: Mr. Freen at May 13, 2004 10:46 PM
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