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Does anyone really have an Inner Mermaid? Stem cell research, genetic engineering, bioethics, words that are all part of a growing vocabulary of a wondrous, and potentially frightening, brave new world where man gets to play God with life.
Trans-Specieism, using gene splicing to genetically alter life forms, even creating new ones, is going to be a serious issue in the coming years.
To understand the staggering ethical significance of these issues, SheepTrax Undercover interviewed a young woman, Alba Core, who is planning to use radical gene splicing to unleash what she calls is her “true self,” her Inner Mermaid… (We join the interview)
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SheepTrax: You want to be genetically altered to become a kind of Lilith, a siren, an aquatic nymph. You want to become a… mermaid?
Alba Core: I am a mermaid - inside. I just want to release what and who I truly know myself to be.
SheepTrax: Ma’am? You’re in danger of going from wearing fish net stockings to getting hauled away in real fish nets and… sleeping with the tuna as canned seafood, as it were.
Alba Core: Funny. I simply want to grow beyond God’s ridiculous boundaries to find and express my true inner self.
SheepTrax: You think nature made a mistake with you? You are a human being.
Alba Core: We have designer shoes and designer clothes; why not designer people?
SheepTrax: Hitler was working along those same lines…
Alba Core: But didn’t have the human genome mapped or the means to manipulate genetics. I’m not out to create a maser race, just a better one. Three quarters of this planet is covered with water. Can’t you see that a genetic melding of sea life with humanity is the future?
SheepTrax: The Bible says that like is to produce like, that people were made in God’s image. You want to be a mermaid. Whose image will you be made in?
Alba Core: I will be the realized stuff of dreams finally made flesh, like that so-called godman you worship, Jesus. I will be kind of like Jesus, the Word made flesh.
SheepTrax: As a Christian, I can tell you Jesus is God made flesh, a prefect representation of God the Father. He was not a clone, a Trans-species, or an alien hybrid. He had, and has, two complete natures: fully God, and fully man. He is the prefect representative between humans and their Creator, uniquely one of a kind!
Alba Core: Well, I’m not God but I can’t say I much care for his rules. I have a free will and will do exactly as I please…
SheepTrax: The Bible calls that impulse, “rebellion.”
Alba Core: In that case, I will be, to borrow a fundamentalist term, “reborn,” in the image of Poseidon, god of the oceans!
SheepTrax: There was that long distance runner who went to Korea to have himself genetically enhanced, cross paired with genes from what he thought was a horse, but turned out to be a mule…
Alba Core: …and he ended up making an a** of himself. I know. Genetic engineering isn’t prefect but it is the last frontier.
SheepTrax: If this works, you’ll become a chimera, like the mythical beasts of old that were part lion, part goat, and part dragon…
Alba Core: You mean, a monster?
SheepTrax: A modern day chimera is a genetically engineered creature created from the DNA of different species… combined in ways their Creator did not intend.
Alba Core: I choose to be my own “creator,” thank you. When I was a little girl, trapped away at prep school, I saw the hood ornament of a 1931 Cadillac; a beautiful sculpted mermaid, and I knew right then that is who I truly am.
SheepTrax: But mermaids aren’t real, Alba…
Alba Core: Don’t you get it? I have an Inner Mermaid waiting to be born! We even have our own scientific name: Pelagomuliebrae from the Latin meaning womanly creature of the open sea.
SheepTrax: Latin is dead and so is anyone who speaks it. (pause) Ummm, never mind. (pause) O.K. Have you considered the influence you’re having socially? In sympathy to your cause, a Greek sorority has changed their name to Alpha Chi “Mera”…
Alba Core: May they spit at the prejudices of so called “bioethical” bigots and self-serving “speciests” and become my daughters. Can you imagine a royal sisterhood of water divas?
SheepTrax: Yeah, it was called Baywatch. So you are a siren of sorts? In Greek mythology, sirens called out to the unsuspecting sailors who heeded their songs and crashed into the rocks, drowning. See, sin always pays its wages in death… where are you going? Come back!
Alba Core went livid, and stormed off. If she had been a squid, she would have inked me. Thank goodness for legs. With fins, that simple act would have proven impossible. Her species transformation plan is to recreate herself with dolphin stem cells, essentially re-sequencing her DNA. If this works, she wants to then create hybrid embryos by fusing human cells with dolphin cells. Her dream is to populate the world with human-dolphin hybrids.
CONTINUED
SheepTrax: Thanks for coming back, Alba.
Alba Core: Since I realize you are full of species prejudice and have a sick, unevolved mind, I returned to enlighten you.
SheepTrax: I’ll stick with the Light of the World, thanks, but I appreciate you sharing your story. Chromosomes don’t lie. Human is human. Why do you believe you have an Inner Mermaid?
Alba Core: Look inside yourself, Mr. Reporter. All of us know it. We all feel it. Something, somewhere has gone terribly awry with humanity. It’s like there is a piece missing inside, a black hole in our souls that nothing seems to satisfy. Don’t you feel it?
SheepTrax: That missing part is a relationship with God. The problem is not that we don’t have fins, Alba. The problem is that we all have sin. It’s not a fin issue, but a sin issue.
Alba Core: Pul-ease.
SheepTrax: Sin is our inherited estrangement from God; a part of our fallen natures. It’s that rebellious impulse that says to him, “No, thanks. I’ll take it from here, God. Hasta la Vista. Don’t-Save-Me!”
Alba Core: I am a goddess rising, waiting to be born, to be unleashed to rule my own domain. I will gladly sacrifice my legs for a fin. What does your Jesus think of that?
SheepTrax: The Bible records Jesus cooking and eating fish, Alba.
Alba Core: (Snorts in disgust) Figures.
SheepTrax: Dolphins eat fish, too. Raw.
Alba Core: (Silence) Then sushi it is.
SheepTrax: God does indeed want you to be recreated, to be transformed. Not into a parahuman, but to be recreated back into his image by being reborn of His Spirit. Eternal life is a gift to all who turn to Him in faith…
Alba Core: Get me to the ocean you fish-bashing, fundy fruitcake!
SheepTrax: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but it only leads to death.” That’s a quote from the Bible.
Alba Core: That’s your handbook, not mine. I prefer enlightened, classical literature.
SheepTrax: Oh? Then consider a poem by Yeats which, for you, has frightening apocalyptic undertones that you would be wise to consider, Alba. It’s called “The Mermaid.”
A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.
Alba Core: You judgmental freak! You sick, speciest, perverted…!
SheepTrax: Alba, pervert means, “Marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; to change the inherent purpose or function of something.” Isn’t that what you’re attempting to do using genetic manipulation to defy your very humanity…?
Alba Core snarled, flippering a future fin in mock salute, and walked away, plunging towards a final darkness blacker than the deepest ocean.
Bryan Hupperts
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