Are we taking Science a bit too far
Creating Hybrid Humans. Are we as humans taking experiments a bit too far? I think we should be concentrating on finding cures for the problems we already have, than creating more?
Whats your take on this?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080402/health/britain_science_medicine_religion_politics
(change if better suited in the Politics channel)
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I think science is definitely taking things too far when it comes to things like stem cell research and cloning ad what not. Somethings should not be tampered with!
It can also be a way finding cures.
It isn't preventable anyway. For some, it seems to be morally and ethically reprehensible, but everyone thinks different about it. Up to a certain point, I support such researches, as long as they help and not harm us.
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"Chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man." (Henry Brooks Adams)
The concept of "too far" will keep on changing, as it always has throughout all of human history.
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I agree if any and all experiments are to further our knowledge of understanding diseases and finding cures...kudos..but if we are to create more species, where we can say down the road, my mom was a cow...are we opening our most extreme sci fi movies to become our future?
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The un-inspirational behavior of others determines our willingness to believe their words. Their life and truths then become like wind, collecting dust in its passing. -lea
Who said the real objective of the experiment in question was to create a new species in the first place? The scientists who carried it out didn't for sure, nor did the article.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
Who said the real objective of the experiment in question was to create a new species in the first place? The scientists who carried it out didn't for sure, nor did the article.
I don't think this is an old species.... what do embryos develop into and how much farther are we from it? ....Like you always say facts speak for themselves..
LONDON (AFP) - For the first time in Britain, researchers at Newcastle University said Tuesday they had created human-animal hybrid embryos, amid a political row over a disputed embryo research bill in parliament.
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The un-inspirational behavior of others determines our willingness to believe their words. Their life and truths then become like wind, collecting dust in its passing. -lea
"The government says that the scientific advantages of allowing the creation of hybrid embryos for research purposes could help millions of people to recover from illness or disease."
No further comment needed.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
"The government says that the scientific advantages of allowing the creation of hybrid embryos for research purposes could help millions of people to recover from illness or disease."
No further comment needed.
Hey Shaka - curious about something- I don't know where the boundaries are for some medical / ethical issues. I'm not sure but I think you would agree that at some point there are ethical boundaries?
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Shaka- I think I need to re-phrase that, because of course there are boundaries. For example, we don't terminate the life of a heart patient to harvest his eyes for someone else. So my question perhaps is more along the lines of cloning? There has to be ethical boundaries I think. Do you agree? And who should set the boundaries?
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Bad pick. I have no problem with cloning.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
Bad pick. I have no problem with cloning.
ok...I wasn't challenging you... just curious. I haven't put a lot of thought into this, but it seems to me that there is the possibility of some lone ranger mad scientist doing things that most scientists and medical professionals find offensive.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Should we hinder scientific progress because of a possibility?
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
Aquisition of further knowledgeand information should not be described as progress because this is generally regarded as a Positive word..Man has progessed to the ability to wreak monumental destruction on his fellow man,is this how anyone of us would want to define progress..medical progress unbridled on the other hand ,to me a religionist ,is tampering with the thread of life,almost as if they are trying to prove that they are equal to god..I don't say stop it,we act within the freedom of choice,but where the hell is that choice going to lead us???
i once had a fortune cookie that read, "much knowledge can be obtained from failure". like all fortunes, it can be applied to just about any aspect of "life".
but where the hell is that choice going to lead us???
Umh, don't know....curing as many conditions as we can? Don't worry, though, you won't be forced to accept medications if you really don't want to. But you will be forced by religionists to be kept alive by machines if you ever happen to turn into a vegetable in a bed.
Hey, contradiction-alarm anyone?
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen
Ive been a vegetable in bed,a jumping bean Hahahahaahh..
No need for any alarm,the swiss to the rescue,the suicide firm is known as dignitas..Their foreign client base seems to be steadily decreasing,Hahahahaahahh..
It can cause many problems, but it can also solve many. But every major scientific breakthrough has that, and also people always seem to be affraid of the future. I don't think it's possible to stop it though.
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bijna, maar ik denk dat ze weldra zal komen.
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en de klokken vertrekken naar Rome