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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Scientists detail rice code Scientists have laid bare the "life code" of rice. Two groups of researchers report a draft DNA sequence of the plant - a staple for more than half the world's population - in the journal Science
{it is maybe a true thing that what was here for a long time living as human is now about to not do that anymore. clone baby and the very intricate heart of life laid bare. it's been my contention all along that it's not what is being done. it's who is doing it. by that I mean not the men in the laboratories so much, not the sluggish drones so much as the drivers, the minds that push this dubious envelope. who are they? the hidden kings of the dark time we find ourselves in now. desperate for the one thing no command can yet obtain. immortality.
but of the body, not the soul.
it occurs to me they need the fundamentalist hysteria, the naive resistance that seems at times to be their only obstacle, to compare themselves to, to make themselves look real in the eyes of their children. they need the intentional ignorance so everywhere available, to mask their cowardice with bravado and smug competence.
the bible has a story concerning the tower of Babel. it's the myriad languages that ensued that get mentioned most, but it was the arrogance of building a means to ascend to heaven that was the cause of the tower's fall. the step by step climb toward what should have been a gift from above.
so how do we progress without that arrogant reach? sometimes return is forward motion. sometimes the most simple basic acts bring us further in and closer toward the living heart of God. not the God of institutional mind that waits somewhere far away. the living God of this world. the green God, the God whose outrage gathers all around us, the God that brought us through the hardest seasons of the long life we've had, as human beings.}