Man’s Folly

It all started with Dolly. Lost in the annals of genetic experiments and the discovered limits on cell reproduction, the barrier to eternal life — was in theory — breached to a curious scientific community. The ethical issue of cloning ruled the debates, and philosophies behind the laws and the regulator enforcements placed to hamper scientist, which worked to sooth the concerns of the general populace,— squelch all but the most extreme voices of the doom-sages;— but, in reality, these legislative endeavors did little to curb experimentation to the creative minds that thrive solely on the need to press forward: — “because to achieve,— limits must be breached.” The missing link was traced to cancer cells which continue to divide unhampered by telomeres, but as with the case in most human equations — possible consequences were unforeseen — or ignored. But life on our planet has an amazing ability to adapt to the natural world. Programmed into the very fabric of the DNA, in all living things, are the sleeper genes that fire due to changes in the environment. Normally the adaptations in organisms take place over generations as environmental charges are a gradual process. But man’s ability to mess with everything at a much faster pace drove a quicker response from our DNA sleepers.—— Who would have thought? that unlocking the key to ever-lasting-life was the very seed necessary to fire the sleepers that would end the human race.