Re: Foes of stem cell research now face tough battle

On Nov 24, 8:16 am, Olneyb...@xxxxxxxxx (Trailer Trash) wrote:

It'll give the little buggers something to do, but i'm sure they'll find
bigger fish to fry.

My all-time favorite repudiation of the 'Anti Stem Cell Research'
argument as presented by Sam Harris:

.. . ."A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called
a blastocyst. "

.. . . " let us assume, for the moment, that every three-day-old human
embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. Embryos at this stage
occasionally split, becoming separate people identical twins). Is this
a case of one soul splitting into two? Two embryos sometimes fuse into
a single individual, called a chimera. You or someone you know may
have developed in
this way. No doubt theologians are struggling even now to determine
what becomes of the extra human soul in such a case. . ./snark/"

.. . . "The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the
interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a
child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by
religious metaphysics. The link between religion and "morality"-so
regularly proclaimed and so seldom demonstrated- is fully belied here,
as it is wherever religious dogma
supersedes moral reasoning and genuine compassion."

http://www.parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/parkmail1.2/2006d/msg00641.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/685ded

If you can read this, comprehend it, and still oppose embryonic stem
cell research, you're just as evil as any Islamist who accepts the
suicide bombing deaths of children as God's Will.

..-=d00b
..
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