{"id":9093,"date":"2010-05-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/23\/synthetic-life-defies-divine-law-decries-kanchi-sankaracharya\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:00:00","slug":"synthetic-life-defies-divine-law-decries-kanchi-sankaracharya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/23\/synthetic-life-defies-divine-law-decries-kanchi-sankaracharya\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Life Defies Divine Law, Decries Kanchi Sankaracharya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/chennai\/cell-research-defies-divine-law-says-seer-020\">www.deccanchronicle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, May 22, 2010: Craig Venter&#8217;s laboratory cell violates the divine law of creation, says Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati, who believes that creating life in a laboratory is an act of defiance against God. &#8220;Venter&#8217;s work violates karma, which alone decides the nature of life for all humans and, besides, creating life in a lab could cause cultural degradation as it eliminates the need for marriage and family values,&#8221; said Swami when asked about the creation of &#8220;synthetic cells&#8221; announced by Venter&#8217;s laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Scientific advancement could be used to provide vital needs, the pontiff said, welcoming the use of research to make vaccines and biofuels. &#8220;But if a man is synthetically created, his body would not be guided by past karma and he would behave just like a machine,&#8221; he warned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.deccanchronicle.com CHENNAI, INDIA, May 22, 2010: Craig Venter&#8217;s laboratory cell violates the divine law of creation, says Kanchi Sankaracharya,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}