Q. What’s going on inside?
A. Uncertainty.
Q. Uncertainty about what?
A. About whether I ought to contact a group of theologians.
Q. Theologians?
A. University professors interested in theology.
Q. Why would you want to contact them?
A. To vindicate myself.
Q. Were you falsely accused?
A. I believe so, yes.
Q. What was their accusation?
A. That I did not make any sense.
Q. When?
A. When I expressed my personal theological conjecture.
Q. Which is?
A. I call it “The Clone Theory of Creation.”
Q. What’s that?
A. Hard to express. Otherwise they wouldn’t have told me I wasn’t making sense.
Q. Give it a try?
A. That’s why I’m here.
The Answerer clears his throat.
A. Simply stated, the Clone Theory of Creation intends to demonstrate a parallel between the creation of life by God and the scientific replication of life that occurs during genetic cloning.
Q. What inspired this theory?
A. Genesis 1:26. “Let us make Man in Our Image.”
Q. You believe that when God made Man in Their Image, it was like scientists cloning a human embryo, and thus creating a replicate in the image of the embryo?
A. Exactly.
Q. Isn’t that a bit far-fetched?
A. One would think so at first. However, I later found numerous Scriptures that appear to confirm the hypothesis.
Q. Why did the theologians think you weren’t making sense?
A. Probably because I wasn’t! I’d never really tried to express the theory before, and when I did, I became extremely tongue-tied. I must have rambled for five minutes, before the professor to my right put his hand on my shoulder, and said: “Andy, I hate to break it to you, but nothing you’ve said in the past five minutes has made any sense at all.”
Q. What happened then?
A. I was embarrassed. I felt my face turn beet red. And I told them so.
Q. Are you sure that not one of those professors thought you were making any sense?
A. Quite sure. There was, however, a young man present — a student — who approached me afterwards. He assured me that the theory had made sense to him. But he also said something that discouraged me.
Q. What was that?
A. He said: “I followed your theory, and I thought you were making sense. But in deference to your age, wisdom, and maturity, I would like to suggest that even you, Andy, know that your theory is OUT THERE.”
Q. How did you feel then?
A. Shot down.
Q. Why?
A. Probably because of my ego. You see, at the previous such meeting of theologians, I felt that I was shining unusually brightly. A respected professor emeritus of philosophy even expressed a desire to have lunch with me sometime — a man held in high regard, who had spent three years in India with the Maharishi, and wrote a book about Gandhi. People seemed to admire me for my biblical knowledge, as well as my knowledge of denominational differences.
Q. How did you pick up your knowledge of denominational differences?
A. Probably by losing jobs as a piano player with just about every denomination on the planet. But, despite looming loss of job, I always enjoyed soaking in the sermons, and comparing those of one denominational slant to that of another. My history of failed church jobs reads like a class in “Comparative Christianity.”
Q. So you felt that you had really shone at the previous meeting?
A. Yes.
Q. Then what?
A. Then my ego told me I had an image to maintain! So I went to the next meeting eager to sustain my positive image, in the eyes of the professors present.
Q. And?
A. Because of that egoistic expectation, I tried too hard to prove myself. And in trying too hard, I failed.
Q. Is there a moral to this story?
A. There certainly is.
Q. And the moral is?
A. Ditch the ego, dude. Just be yourself.
Q. Anything else?
A. Yes. I’d like to ask a question of you, and of my readers.
Q. What is the question?
A. Am I making any sense?
The Questioner is silent.
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The first thought that comes to mind would be to wonder where that embryo would be implanted to grow.
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Wow! Somebody actually made an intelligent comment that pertained to what I’m talking about! This is certainly a first.
The word on the streets is that they’re cloning embryos at a certain well-known Research Institute, even as we speak. If so, then probably the embryonic clones will be quickly placed in a controlled womb-like environment where they will be nurtured, possibly intravaneously. This no doubt will take place in a laboratory, behind closed doors.
It is also the analog to the Garden of Eden in the biblical narrative. The technologically advanced form of “human” that from our limited earthly perspective we call “divine” engaged in cloning their basic DNA and quickly dropped a male and female clone in the Garden, where our original progenitors were nurtured as though in a mother’s womb.
I could go further, but it would be interesting to see what you (or anyone else) has to say from here.
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I can certainly see that it could happen. The if and the how far is probably more difficult to predict.
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Yeah I know. The theory is also predicated on certain a priori concessions which many people are unwilling to consider. But there are numerous Scriptures that appear to suggest that, while the original clones ultimately turned out to be corrupt versions of their creators, an arduous process is taking place, to the end that some number of their “seed” (or descendants) will be restored to wholeness in the eyes of the “divine” scientists whose task it is to correct the problem. This may take thousands or even millions of earth-years. I further posit that the creators themselves were also once clones of an even higher-evolved form of humanoid, and on and on up the scale ad infinitum. This neatly addresses the “first cause” argument, and I suspect a number of other classic ontological and epistemological problems may be solved through this model as well.
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Huh, very interesting to think about.
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Indeed. What I’d like to do from here, however, is consolidate the basics and turn them over to people who are better disposed to develop the details. The topic of the theology meeting was “the relationship between religion and science,” by the way. I’m not too much of an expert on either, and if I were to dive into a large project, it makes more sense for me to bow out and just write another musical comedy.
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Consolidate and pass it on sounds like a plan, and then dive into that musical comedy with gusto!
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Agreed! Well – it’s been nice having discourse with you. Now it’s time for me to go play piano at the hospital. Ta ta.
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Sounds like a lovely thing to do! Ta ta!
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