02-15-2005, 08:31 AM
Bismillah,
A thought to this with DNA. If I look at this from the Islamic point of view, there is no need for bloodtesting to figure out who the father is, since Islam does not permit a women to have several husbands. And this kind of bloodtesting is done to find out who the FATHER is, not the mother, for obvious reasons.
But on the other hand it seems to be a need that has accured outside Islam, since many are practising, not marriage only, but either a combination of marriage and other men and women or even of the same sexes outside the marrige, like a combination, one legal and one or several unlawful, so the need has arisen to find out who is who, who is the father of a child.
So sad but a fact. True and sincere morality is truly a missing ingredient in society today. So therefore among other things, DNA is needed to fulfill knowledge of immorality ('who is the father').