Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, thanks to new technology from Neurrelink, a woman that was fully paralyzed for over 20 years, can now write her name.

Through a quarter-sized chip called the link that was surgically implanted in her brain,

Audrey Cruz can now control a computer cursor using only her mind.

According to Elon Musk, who founded the company Neurrelink, helping individuals with paralysis is just the beginning.

He predicts that one day the blind will be able to see and the mute to communicate.

And therein lies the challenge of our emerging technologies.

What's promised, especially through advances in medical technology, is simply astounding and

nearly irresistible. And of course, we have very good reason to believe in those promises.

After all, advances in medical technology have basically eradicated plagues and ailments that were once common.

Back in the 1950s, polio cases ran into the tens of thousands. Today, it's virtually non-existent.

Before 1981, very little could be done for a baby in utero, but today, full surgeries are performed on babies in the womb,

and many other technologies make it possible

to save newborns that in earlier times would have almost certainly died. And yet these promises

are not without peril. We cannot view gene editing technologies like CRISPR or artificial reproductive

technologies like IVF or even smartphones with mere indifference, when our technologies outpace our ethics,

what we can do becomes what we should do, and anything new becomes automatically good.

And we ought not underestimate our human ability to invent new things.

God himself once said of an especially industrious group of image bearers, and I quote,

Behold, they're one people, they have all one language.

This is only the beginning of what they will do, and nothing they propose to do will now be

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