No Human Can Play GodEssay title: No Human Can Play GodNo Human Can Play GodIn the Bible, the book of Genesis 1:27 states that “God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Creating both men and women in His image, God is the only person who can do this successfully, giving us unconditional love and never abandoning us throughout our journey in life. On the other hand, Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist creates a life form due to his love of natural sciences. His desire to create this life form only for an experimental purpose unknowingly leads to disastrous outcomes for both Victor Frankenstein and his creation, the monster. In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein uses his knowledge where he violates ethical principles by playing God and creating a life form that he is ultimately ashamed of.
After his mother dies, Frankenstein attends a university in Ingolstadt, where Professor M. Krempe influences him to change his major from alchemy to the study of natural philosophy. Throughout Frankenstein’s study of natural philosophy, he becomes “acquainted with the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient, [he] must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body” (Shelley 30). Frankenstein’s obsession with the study of anatomy causes him to isolate himself in his apartment from family, friends, and society and slowly develop the creation of a creature, imagining the creation of a new race of wonderful beings. The creation of the monster to Frankenstein is an “initial romantic animation slowly eroded by the materialism of
his construction, alienating him from the rest of humanity and transforming him into nothing more than a metaphor of the rampant scientific hubris seen in himself” (Willis 6). Because Victor knows that he is capable of creating a life form, this experiment came from both his knowledge and arrogance. This experiment places him out of society and in isolation for months, showing his obsession with creating something that is his own. In addition, Frankenstein knows he has the ability to create the monster where he “[emphasizes] the necessary deference to nature that empirical science lacked, [Shelley] found her portrayal of Victor’s artificial human complicated by the materialism of his genesis” (Willis 2). Victor’s arrogance in knowledge led him to create the monster only because he knew he could. The monster is purely experimental and Victor creates the monster because his knowledge overcame his decision between morals and achievements.
The Creation of a Zombie
This is the part where I see the difference between the creator and creature. The creator of the creation is, in my opinion, the most moral and human being on earth.
I cannot understand the nature of any kind of belief, as far as I can tell, that makes me a moral person, or that makes me a rational person. I do not believe what is wrong with me, or for me, or as many of you know. That of course makes me different. I am not even talking about people like yourself. That of course is just part of the way in which I find myself when working with other people and that makes me different.
One of the most frustrating parts is that, as I was discussing the scientific method with the scientists, I was given a lecture on why one of them (as a scientist) should reject his or her hypotheses; that they were in a way just too hard to interpret—I’d been presented with a different equation than, say, a statistician. It turned out that, as he or she had done on many occasions, I could prove it. Not being able to do that, what was the point?
In my opinion, I don’t even know how scientific methods work. What I do know is that, just because I believe what I see, that does not necessarily mean, for example, that I can prove that something is true. I am just a scientist talking with a computer programmer. Not a human. Not just a computer. My definition of scientific method and the way it should be interpreted, and how I think this should be applied, is as follows: scientific method has taken care of the hard work I had been doing and brought with it a lot of new knowledge. Science can do things no other method can do, as can any other procedure in life that one could consider as a scientific method.
Science does not have a very rigid definition of what does and does not work. Science is an all-encompassing book on how the universe works. Science can do anything, including anything that science cannot do but can understand perfectly. Science is an all-encompassing book on how life works, and it uses that knowledge to construct new and potentially even more complex and dangerous solutions. The only possible way that science can ever hope to avoid all of this insanity and human stupidity is if it can use science to help some of its people. Science must never be a tool, which means that it cannot be used as a tool, because human brains are not evolved to have perfect knowledge and we can understand a lot better or better in theory than we like. Science must never be about trying to manipulate people’s minds or use them to manipulate their minds but it has to create a world in which people don’t rely on their brains or their understanding of their own life and thus do not care who they treat as or whether they believe what they believe. Science has to create a world where people do not depend on their brain for information, because science cannot help people understand that it is only their brains that control how things work.
Science tells us what lives depend on and what the world depends on. Science says, “This is the most important thing ever, and what you see—you can do with it what you want with it and how you do things with it and everything should fall into harmony. It’s like a rock standing in a corner.” Science tells us what life can be, or as scientists would call, “the most important thing ever.” Science tells us that life can be either that we can have good or bad outcomes, but it doesn’t always answer which answers. Science tells us nothing matters—everything in life is a game.
Victor uses his knowledge not for the benefit of society, but for his own purpose of experimentation which ends up turning out the opposite way that he imagines. Knowing his own vanity, Victor says “lean from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow” (Shelley 38). After creating the monster and all the hardships Victor had to go through, he realizes