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For many years humankind has been rapidly increasing its level of technological sophistication. This increased technological sophistication has often come into conflict with human ethics. No technology, however, has pushed the ethical envelope as thoroughly as a contemporary technology – Genetic Engineering (GE). What exactly is Genetic Engineering? To put it briefly, it is a science in which scientists splice, alter, and manipulate genes controlling specific traits to correct biological problems in living organisms. The ultimate goal of many of these alterations is insertion into a foreign host. While promising in many aspects, this technological advance is too powerful for us to handle. It is advancing faster than we can reconcile our belief systems to come to terms with its implications. Because of this fact, GE raises many moral and ethical issues while presenting numerous dangers when analyzed in the context of religion, science, and privacy This controversially technology could be looked at two ways, one religiously and the other, scientifically and economically. First, let’s take a religious point of view on GE. With the current knowledge we have today in GE, life can easily be created and manipulated to one’s