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Genetics Gone Too Far?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Great fiction has warned us of the dangers of playing God with human genetics, but sadly, what's going on these days isn't fiction.

In one of this summer's most-awaited novels, "The City of Mirrors," author Justin Cronin completes his unlikely literary trilogy about a world overrun by vampire-like creatures he dubs "virals."

Unlike Bram Stoker's creation, the disaster unleashed by his monsters is entirely man-made. Men, seeking to "play God," created monstrous hybrids they could never hope to control, with disastrous but completely predictable results.

While Cronin's work is fiction, its themes ring all too true. As one colleague of mine put it, the book reads like a "warning shot across our bow."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/playing-god-with-human-animal-hybrids-165039/#QreolhT5bPaFVlMy.99

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