Letter: Science, God not incompatible

Thursday, Aug. 29, 2002 | 9:06 a.m.

I know there have been many words said, and a lot more has been written on this subject, but I needed to add my two cents by asking: What's all this hullabaloo about prolonging or making life better through the use of DNA and stem cells?

Every day I hear that some hyper-religious person stated this and that in disagreement to bring these medical advances to cure a person of a fatal disease. They, by some source of misdirection, claim that this is infringing on God's work. My, my!

Perhaps they should claim that the use of antibiotic vaccines or a more modern device known as a defibrillator, which has the ability to restart a dead person's heart and raise him from the dead, so to speak, are infringements on God's work.

God intended, I do believe, that we should advance in knowledge ... that we should do unto others as we would have done unto us. Given that to be true, then let those who can, do such things as they can for mankind and not be hindered from doing God's work.

For is it not God's will that mankind should prosper? Mankind could never prosper more than when he aids his fellow man.

ROBBY ALSTON