I believe in a cycle

Have you watched that futuristic action thriller "The Island"? The one where supposedly unfeeling, programmed, human clones are housed in some underground, "uncontaminated" facility, whose sole purpose of existence is to provide “spare parts” for their living, paying, original human counterparts?

Sure, there's a couple of really pretty faces, and lots of wham-bam action, with heart-stopping hiding, running & dodging, but beyond all that explosive glitz, there is really something to think about. The possibility of Man creating, and hence controlling life.

I'm not sure when I started thinking this way (perhaps ever since I become fascinated with bio?), but I have, for a long time, felt that the further and faster Man progresses in terms of technology, and in terms of knowledge, the closer and faster we are to our own death and extinction... I deeply respect Mother Nature. I think She has her own ways of dealing with arrogant & 'powerful' living organisms, be it in the form of natural disasters, pandemics, wars...

Merely 52 yrs ago, Watson & Crick first unveiled to mankind, the double-helical nature of purported molecule of life - DNA, and just half a century later, we are already cloning mice, pigs, sheep, goats & monkeys like nobody's business... and tinkering with stem cells, embryos, gene therapy, & sex selection... By fighting so hard, first to sustain life, then to improve life, and finally to CREATE life, I feel we are becoming increasingly arrogant, and dangerous... we are digging our own graves. Man has never created life, and can never be. It is not our job. Should we persist, and eventually suceed, that day of "success" will likely be the last for mankind.

I'm not sure how the end will come, but I do feel that we are just part of one big perpetual cycle of living, improving, creating & destroying. Ultimately, we never get anywhere. All these advancements are but a facade. Ultimately, it will come to nought, destroyed by our very own haughtiness. And then we will begin the evolution process again, from humble learners to ambitious makers, and then we get destroyed again. Like a tape rewound, and replayed, and rewound, and replayed...This cycle will never stop. We can never be greater than Mother Nature. Or maybe some of you prefer to call her GOD.