The Dawn Treader

Francis Schaeffer saw it so clearly.  In his landmark book, How Should We Then Live?, Schaeffer writes the following.

Modern determinists have not presented only abstract theories.  Rather, there have been two practical results.  First, and most important, as their ideas about what people are have been increasingly accepted, people consciously or unconsciously have opened themselves to being treated as machines and treating other people as machines.  Second, each theory of determinism has carried with it a method of manipulation.  So even though many -- even most -- people may reject the concept that man is totally a product of psychological, sociological, or chemical conditioning, manipulation by these methods is still very much a live possibility.  In fact, these techniques are all at the disposal of of authoritation states, and they are in some degree already being used.

What do machines need when they break?  Why mechanics, of course.  How do we build better machines?  We engineer them.

If man is a machine, then he is an object to be manipulated repaired.  He is a product to be manipulated tweaked.  He is a design waiting to be manipulated engineered.

The seeds are already in place for the coming nightmare of positive eugenics -- aka, genetic engineering.  I heard a fascinating senior thesis last week by a student at Faith Christian School about gene manipulation and designer children.  It is a reality that your children and grand children will have to engage.

And what do you do when the machine is broken and cannot be repaired?  You unplug it.

Worldviews are deadly serious, aren't they?