Ninth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

Like its wave in the Western world, reproductive technology is fast becoming an unstoppable phenomenon in the African societies. Its wide acceptance could be traced to African obsession for children. In Africa, barrenness is a social problem that could lead to untold hardship especially for women. The phenomenon has however assumed a leading catalyst in the supremacy contest between naturalism and creationism. It has also become a serious threat to African value for morality, responsibility and accountability. Beyond the charge of Victorian morality, Christians are driven by the conviction based on biblical revelation concerning the nature of human origins and value for life. This paper intends to study the historical background of reproductive technology, its growth in contemporary age and its influence on African youths with regards to biblical revelation through Hebrew and Greek word studies. The aim is to ascertain whether reproductive technology is an addition to African communalism or depletion. The paper concludes that as lofty as the aims of reproductive technology are over the problems of human infertility, its derailment into socio –cultural issues, rendering God irrelevant by its assumed successes cannot be helpful to African Christian religious and cultural values.