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- Title
Man‘swill for creating human beings in contradiction to Quranic concepts.
- Authors
Sadati Kalateh, A.
- Abstract
Introduction: Biotechnology has put forward endless opportunities and has enormouslycontributed to humanity in the present era.Nonetheless, it is confronted with challenges and limitations. These limitationsare generally linked to the ethical challenges posed by biotechnological interventions in human genome information and even related interventions in fertility and infertility. These interventions leads to one fundamental question: Does human agency have a right to intervene in the fate of another human being at an ontological level? Materials and Methods: This research is a documented study based on Quranic verses. Itemploys a critical approach to issue of intervention to the fundamental subject such as existence and non-of human beings. Results: The will to creating human beings is faced with morbid challenges due to several reasons. First, the human knowledge is limited and he cannot control and predict the various outcomes and dimensions of this creation.Hence, human creators are questioned by factors which alter the new creatures‘ livesand lead to unpredictable results; this way, human creatorsproves unable to detect and control the past and future paths for his creation, while God is omniscient and knows all aspect of creation. Second, different human wills in human creation, can lead to polarized intellectual/social formations in the present and future. Thus, different forms of human will in creation, leads to an unstable world, while the divine will restores balance to the world. Third, the human will in creation contraststhe concept of freedom (even secular freedom). The new creatures can ask their decision makers why they have created them out of non-existence? In this respect, the new creatures can question and challenge their creators for their given physical, social, and psychological traits. But, creatures cannot pose such questions, and even if theydo, they are not able to challenge their creators. In the end, identity crises resulting from these creations will give in to an unstable world where socio-psychological crises reign. But the history of humanity shows that the divine creation hasn‘t had such crises. According to Quranic concepts, God is responsible for his creatures‘ needs whereas human creatures do not accept this responsibility. Conclusion: The humanistic will to creation of another human being in the forms of sperm, egg, or genetic manipulations carries ontological, epistemological,and axiological challenges. This is because the human knowledge and reason are limited and the human reator cannot predict and control its creational development. Even if he is capable of such control and prediction, there will be identity and social crises accompanying other fundamental problems.
- Subjects
HUMAN reproductive technology &; ethics; BIOTECHNOLOGY ethics; ISLAM
- Publication
Journal of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, 2014, Vol 11, p248
- ISSN
2008-7993
- Publication type
Article