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"J Young" |
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02 Dec 2007 12:13:55 AM |
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'Goodbye, Dolly' |
A victory for good over evil.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/11/stem-cell_breakthrough_prompts.php
'Goodbye, Dolly' - Stem-cell breakthrough prompts change from sheep cloner
Ed Thomas
OneNewsNow.com
November 29, 2007
Recent developments in the area of stem-cell research confirm what
pro-lifers and other proponents of the use of adult stem cells have been
trying to get across to the public for a long time, says a spokesman for the
Christian Medical & Dental Associations.
In what the British newspaper Telegraph says "could mark the beginning of
the end for therapeutic cloning," Professor Ian Wilmut -- the famed cloner
of "Dolly the Sheep" -- has decided to back away from human cloning and
instead pursue adult stem-cell research, which he says is more "socially
acceptable" and has better potential. Medical colleagues around the world,
including a spokesman for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA)
in the U.S., say it validates what adult stem-cell research advocates have
been saying for years.
Professor Wilmut's announcement came just days before two stem-cell
scientists, one an American and the other Japanese, announced they had
produced cells equivalent in properties to embryonic stem cells from human
skin cells. Wilmut cited the Japanese experiments as reasons enough to
discontinue his method of reproduction that grew Dolly.
CMDA chief executive officer Dr. David Stevens says Wilmut stuck with his
decision even though scientists in Oregon announced a breakthrough with
cloning of primates earlier in the same week. "It had nothing to do with the
morals of destroying life at the embryonic stage," he explains, "but just
say[s] that this research that [Wilmut has] been involved in is impractical
to get to the cures that we're all looking for."
And that, claims Stevens, validates the message that Christian scientists
and researchers have been trying to convey for some time now. "It's what
we've been saying for the last seven or eight years ... that embryonic
stem-cell research is immoral, it's impractical -- it's too difficult; we're
seeing all sorts of barriers to getting it accomplished that seem almost
insurmountable -- and thirdly, it's unnecessary," says the CMDA spokesman.
Stevens says these latest scientific breakthroughs mean that the cures
needed can potentially be achieved without destroying human life or
"sacrific[ing] our most important principles on the altar of science."
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J Young
jyoungvisions@aol.com
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| User: "Auntie Lib" |
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| Title: Re: 'Goodbye, Dolly' |
02 Dec 2007 11:19:44 AM |
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J Young wrote:
A victory for good over evil.
'Goodbye, Dolly' - Stem-cell breakthrough prompts change from sheep cloner
Ed Thomas
OneNewsNow.com
November 29, 2007
Recent developments in the area of stem-cell research confirm what
pro-lifers and other proponents of the use of adult stem cells have been
trying to get across to the public for a long time, says a spokesman for the
Christian Medical & Dental Associations.
Time Magazine had a commentary on this, by Michael Kinsley, that
brought up a few really good points. It was titled "Why Science Can't
Save the GOP. The stem-cell breakthrough doesn't make up for six years
of hypocrisy and lost research."
The best part:
"Third, although the political dilemma that stem cells pose for
politicians is real enough, the moral dilemma is not and never was.
The embryos used in stem-cell research come from fertility clinics,
which otherwise would discard them. This has been a powerful argument
in favor of such research. Why let these embryos go to waste? But a
more important point is, What about fertility clinics themselves? In
vitro fertilization ("Test tube babies") involves the purposeful
creation of multiple embryos, knowing and intending that most of them
either will die after implantation in the womb or, if not implanted,
will be discarded or frozen indefinitely. Even if all embryonic stem-
cell research stopped tomorrow, this far larger mass slaughter of
embryos would continue. There is no political effort to stop it.
Bush even praised in vitro fertilization in his 2001 speech about the
horrors of stem-cell research. In vitro has become too popular for
politicians to take on. But their failure to do so makes a mockery of
their alleged agony over embryonic stem cells."
Why am I always surprised at such religious and political hypocrisy?
(I guess I epect better of those who claim to hold some sort of moral
high ground. They don't, but you'd think they'd at least PRETEND
to.)
elizabeth
aa#2098
EAC Director of Useless Endeavors
Vice-Chairman Of The Committee On Wasted Time
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"I was born with a skeptical mind. Now I ask you, is that fair?
If God gives me a skeptical nature and you an accepting one, then
you're going to be a believer and I'm not. If belief is a ticket to
eternal happiness, I'm definitely handicapped. God gives me a mind
capable of asking questions and what? I'm damned if I use it?"
F. Paul Wilson "The Haunted Air"
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: 'Goodbye, Dolly' |
02 Dec 2007 01:57:50 AM |
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On 2 Dez., 07:13, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
A victory for good over evil.
God protects us from improving our lives, right J Young
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/11/stem-cell_breakthrough_prompts.php
Any reason at all why all your late evenings are spent copying and
pasting pseudo news sites that fit your retrograde agenda?
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| User: "Syd M." |
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| Title: Re: 'Goodbye, Dolly' |
02 Dec 2007 01:04:49 AM |
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On Dec 2, 1:13 am, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
A victory for good over evil.
No, JrkYoung, that will be when you die.
PDW
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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02 Dec 2007 10:28:37 AM |
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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:13:55 -0500, J Young wrote:
A victory for good over evil.
You're being committed?
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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Evolution is both fact and theory.
Creationism is neither.
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: 'Goodbye, Dolly' |
02 Dec 2007 01:53:18 AM |
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One fine day in alt.atheism, "J Young" <jyoungvisions@aol.com> bloodied us
up with this:
A victory for good over evil.
I thought you were talking about Dolly Parton, one of your anti-semite
allies. Dang.
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Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Convicted by Earthquack.
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