Jurassic World – Genesis
Introduction: Science and Religion
So often do we overlook the importance of faith in the pursuits of scientific inquiry that we forget that is the focal point for our understanding and expanding of the discoveries we make, instead the modern man makes the error of assuming that faith, or religion, is disbelief in study and that science itself is the acceptance of such.
In truth the issue is much more complex, but in the early 2000's was simplified and popularized by scientists in social media outlets as "necessary opposites to create an acceptable middle-ground result." The ways in which they worded this explanation was quite varied from study to study, but they all focused on the same concept. In these studies "Science" boiled down to "Disbelief" and "Religion" became simply "Belief" a twist on the subject that our modern man chooses to twist in opposition.
These early 2000's studies suggested that without "Science" Mankind could do not but accept anything they were told, utterly gullible even to words and phrases that immediately contradicted each other. They also suggested that without "Religion" Mankind would utterly refuse any and all things, no matter how logical or profound, isolating themselves from all opinion and thought.
According to the collective reports that were splattered across the media haphazardly, it was only in applied logical belief that the sciences could truly be used for human progress, but of course this sat unwell with the younger generation of Americans it was postulated towards, whom had grown weary with the faith of their forebears and so the studies faded from the public eye, forgotten.
Then came the park. After June 1993 the scope of the world had forever changed when Dr. Ian Malcolm broke his non-disclosure agreement with the company In-Gen and revealed that Biochemically-Engineered Dinosaurs had been brought back from beyond the veil of death. This wracked the minds of those whom believed the injured Chaotician, as well others whom would step forward with their own books, including Drs. Alan Grant and Henry Wu all of which would eventually bring about a truly visit-able park's construction by the fateful month of June in 2005, and the protection of the Dinosaur Wildlife preserves on the neighboring islands in Costa Rica.
It was at this time that the world knew they could no longer hide from the truth, what had existed and faltered millennia ago truly walked the earth once more, and with 98,120 paying witnesses in the park's first month alone there was truly no denying what had happened. Over the course of the next decade the separated, self-segregating scientific and religious communities had to come to terms with what happened. There were riots, attacks on the island and staff, but due to Masrani's Satellites and protective measures were kept at an absolute minimum as time went on and the world adjusted to this new state of being.
Many religious organizations called out for some sort of moral compass in this modern age of species resurrection. The Pope called for a peaceful solution in asking In-Gen to create only accurate representations of God's creatures if they must, and other Men and Women of faith called out for at least some kind of oversight. That was until Minister Judith Clark's social media address went viral. She reminded everyone in her videos and blog posts that Science was not distinct from religion at all, it was not even a segmented thought process. In her enigmatic posts she reminded the world that Science itself is a method, a tool to be used as necessary. She brought forth that all science truly is be in the scientific method itself.
According to her words "Science is Humanity's way of verifying what we can know to the best of our ability at this point. It was not created to disprove Gods or Men but to allow men insight into what they could not even begin to comprehend otherwise." She would go on to explain that even the most renown of scientists, Albert Einstein was devoutly religious and that it was his belief in a higher power that led him to discover all that he ever had. This man, whom was heralded as the Grandfather of Science, whose deceased brain was protected by armed guard day and night, was a pious man to the day he died.
Still Masrani and other Companies paid their way out of any religious agreement creating a sterile neutral environment for production of the miraculous mass resurrection of long dead species they had performed. Early failures were forgotten, Judith's videos and words lost what popularity they had possessed, and the park continued to grow strong and wealthy. The rate of growth eventually reached a critical climax, one where profits did grow, but so steadily that Corporations began to lose interest in the hopes of making a quick buck of the island's innovations.
Then she came. In late November 2015 the thought to pursue scientific exploit and monetary gain without any faithful oversight went through as a Hybrid was forged in secret, her traits unknown to all but Henry Wu and the Lab Assistants under him whom had created her, and even they left in the dark as to the full extent of her chimera-ism. They gave her no name, they gave her no time to adjust to a growing and terrifying body, and they gave her no tutelage in a mind that needed it. Dr. Wu and the others gave her only one solace, they granted her a sibling just as demented and confused as her. Then, while their minds were young and their bodies strong they let her kill her sister just as Kane slew Abel, in cold blood for receiving a scrap she had not. Worse they let her consume the body of her sibling and left her there, alone and unacknowledged, goodly or badly, for what she had done… All they did was build walls.
December 2015, only one month after her birth, the Hybrid known only as Indominus Rex whom had so recently slain her sister and never seen anything other than the crane that gave her, "her daily bread" or the Walls that had been built to hold her eternal, used her twisted mind to escape her cell and do all that she had ever known to do across the landscape of the Park itself… Her life and so many others came to an end on that day, and with their passing the park closed its doors forever more…
Three years have passed since then, reclamation efforts by multiple factions only recently aligned under Mega Corporations and Multi-National Agreements had been underway since February of 2015, only two months after the incident that had scarred the island so desperately. In-Gen itself now worked in near makeshift accommodations alongside representatives of the Costa Rican Government, the Shé Dún (Snake Shield) Protective Agency of China, and several Corporations funded by other means, some by countries of origin and yet others by eccentric billionaires, yet all had to run through the same hoops. An Agency was made above them all, known simply as "Control" on the isle they were the handlers and representatives chosen by interested yet non-contact companies to keep everything as close to "in order" as possible on the island.
