Man Can Make A Monster, But Can He Create One?

"Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin."

The first sin of man was a desire to be like God. "Taste the fruit," said the serpent, "and you will have knowledge of good and evil, as God does."

A choice made with the power of the creative mind, the mind that creates, doomed us all. A robot follows the rules, a man does not.

To become our own God is the dream of man, to hold in our hands the universe, and shape it it as we please. And God, as we all know, is a jealous God.

But in our fever of hubris we most honestly believe that we can kill God with our actions. That by discovering the secrets of life and death, that by mapping the human genome and traveling to distant planets we somehow diminish God. The stupidity of this amazes me.

I can make only one conclusion.

Creativity is sin.