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Joseph
I’ll start off with by saying that there has never been a need for genetic therapy in my family….that I know of, so I wont be able to give a personal story regarding genetic therapy. I will say, however, that I would not be against it because God has given us the ability to change things as necessary, or at least what we deem necessary. I mentioned this last discussion, but I believe that God has created a set of laws for everything to abide by and we are just trying to understand these laws and how they work. If we have learned how to administer genetic therapy then that just means to me that God has given us the tools necessary, and the free will, to make changes as we see fit. I view it the same as if someone were to weight 350 lbs and then started eating healthy and going to the gym everyday. Over time that person could possibly change themselves from weighing 350 lbs to 200 lbs, I don’t think God would have a problem with that because God has provided us with the set of laws that everything must follow, to which that person followed to lose all the weight…..and become healthier
Amanda Lanigan
Being a Christian I do not agree with “tinkering” with God’s creation. I believe that in all honesty, God has a plan for all of us. God made each of us the way that he wanted us to be. If we were meant to look a different way God wouldn’t have made us the way that he did. Honestly I am on the fence about the whole genetic therapy idea. In a sense it is a good idea because it is safer than having drugs put in your body to help with an illness. But on the other hand, God has a plan for all of us, so coming up with a way to inject gene’s into cells is not a good idea. That would be messing with God’s plan, even taking drugs to help with illnesses is going against God’s will. Gene therapy would just be a way of prolonging your life, which for the family it would be a good thing, but in God’s eyes, he knows when each of us is suppose to go, so trying to stop the inevitable is going against what God has planned for us.

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