Giving Life To The Living Image Of The Beast And The First-Fruits Of His Dark Image-Bearers

When reading the new book The Milieu, readers will be amazed to learn all that will be required to make human/robot babies in the very near future is the integration of human DNA and robot “DNA.” These robot chromosomes will be “a set of computerized DNA codes for creating artificial creatures that can have their own personality…based on established biological inheritance laws,”^[i] Dr. David Levy observes. The genetic codes are broken into two categories: “personality” and “outward.” As the titles suggest, the “personality” or genotype coding will provide genetic information to guide specific internal makeup, while the “outward” or phenotype coding will determine the way the robot looks and acts, including hair color, eye color, personality and so on.

A first major milestone allowing robots and/or “computer” minds to write hitherto unknown genetic coding and to give birth to first-ever synthetic life forms was achieved in the landmark experiments of Craig Venter, “the pioneering US geneticist behind…the dawn of a new era in which new life is made” in 2016. ^[ii]

At the time, Julian Savulescu, professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, observed: “Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity’s history, potentially peeking into its destiny. He is not merely copying life artificially…or modifying it radically by genetic engineering. He is going towards the role of a god: creating artificial life that could never have existed naturally” (emphasis added).^[iii]