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truth, for the Colson Center on John Stone Street.

In the biblical account of the Tower of Babel, God states, after examining humanity's

ambitious but misguided building project, that, quote, nothing that they proposed to do

will now be impossible for them.

And quote, that was his reason for confusing their languages and halting their project.

It wasn't because he was angry.

But God states that working together like that, humans could achieve, at least here on

Earth, a sort of God-like power.

Things that seem impossible can become impossible.

And for fallen people at least, that's a real problem.

Inevitably, like the builders of Babel, humans use their incredible capacity to make a name

for ourselves, to do what should not be done, to rebel against God's design and his purpose

for his world.

I immediately thought of this Babel story, like I do a lot these days, when I saw headlines.

This month about a team of scientists that have created living baby mice using two biological

fathers.

The Japanese team behind this seemingly impossible feat described their work recently in the

journal Nature.

After harvesting skin cells from the tails of two male mice, they converted these cells

to what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells.

These are cells that are able to differentiate into any type of tissue in the body.

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