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We imagine how the newspapers of 1932 might have commented on Aldous Huxley's predictions of designer babies in Brave New World.


Soon, mothers will no longer experience childbirth, instead the perfect children will be grown to order inside a glass tank, like so many tomatoes in a green house.

The resulting children will have precisely the physical and mental characteristics desired to make them perfect additions to society.

There will be no dissatisfaction as everyone will fulfill the task they were engineered for.

This shocking prediction is made by Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World, a stomach-turning vision of the future in which science usurps God's rightful role.

Huxley contends that with the proper blend of chemicals and careful selection of donor materials, perfect human infants can be grown like any other mass-produced commodity.

The idea that scientists will one day tinker with God's handiwork to the extent that people are treated like farm animals is as blasphemous as it is preposterous.

As any midwife will tell you, a human child would perish if it were removed from the womb before God's allotted time.

Fear not, reader. Children are God's creations, not man's. Mr Huxley may use all manner of scientific mumbo jumbo to make his tall tale seem plausible but even the most gullible simpleton knows it's nothing but nonsense.

While the young author may be a gifted satirical writer, scientists will never be able to make babies in test-tube-like glass tanks. It's laughable.