THE HUMAN PERSON CONCEPT AND MODERN GENE TECHNOLOGY

Once people believed that our origin was from God. At some point evolved man came to trust himself to be god, self-endowed with power to elicit or extinct life. Progress in biomedicine encountered that dangerous moral background . the paper attempts to discuss the effects of materialism upon biomedical sciences through evaluating from a scientific and moral perspective issues applicable to man in modern gene technology. Moral evaluation was attempted mainly from on Orthodox Chirstian perspective but Islamic and Jewish perspective were also cited.

Keywords:

gene technology , human person , matefilism , traditional moral values secularization , evolutionism and ethics