The following general norms seem to follow from the belief that human beings are created in the image and likeness of God and thus are responsible as co-creators for their own future. Consequently, God does not want human beings to leave fallow the talents that have been given them, but encourages them to improve on the universe. Such improvement is possible because theology can accept the idea that God has made an evolutionary universe in which the human race has been created through an evolutionary process that is not yet complete. Thus God has called humankind to join in bringing the universe to its completion, and in doing this, God has not made them merely workers to execute orders or to add trifling original touches on their own. Rather, God has made them genuine co- workers and encourages them to exercise real creativity.
Human creativity depends on the human brain.
Any alteration that would injure the brain and thus a person's creativity would indeed be a disastrous mutilation, especially if this were to be transmitted genetically, thus further polluting the gene pool with defects that might be hidden and incalculable. Much of the information gained from the Genome Project will affect our bodies. What affects our bodies will affect our spirit. But we know from faith and experience that humans are radically different from chimpanzees. The ethical and theological issues arising from the Genome Project and the ability to manipulate somatic and germ cells will not go away.