Towards the Advancement of Humanity

Mark — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:45:32 +0000

I just finished watching a video about the science of replacement organs. Not just transplanting organs from one body to the next – but actually building new replacement organs outside the human body. The speaker is Anthony Atala from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. There are, apparently, whole teams of people around the country spending time studying the creation of new organs for the body. They only need time, money, and effort to bring their dreams to reality. The film is inspiring beyond measure, at least to me.

What would the world be like if we, as a global people, focused our minds and money on hopeful technologies such as this one, rather than on the development of new weapons of destruction? What if we could somehow, someway, turn the minds that are now focused on the development of new ways to destroy one another onto the development of new ways to sustain each other? We could, without a doubt, advance humanity and the planet we live on. Call me a dreamer, I suppose, but I think about these things.

My hope is that the following film could help inspire one child, one person, to live a life for the advancement of humanity. The God given intelligence to advance our world has been given to each of us. It is up to each of us to use that intelligence.

Somthing to think about…..

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Towards the Advancement of Humanity