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Topic History of: Embryo research
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In The Know wrote:
Good to see that the protests have forced Gordon to back down and concede a free vote -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7312715.stm
Power to the (sane) people !
...not really
BTW what are/is your objection to the research? |
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In The Know |
Good to see that the protests have forced Gordon to back down and concede a free vote -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7312715.stm
Power to the (sane) people ! |
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In The Know |
Anthony wrote:
In The Know wrote:
Anthony
We will have to agree to differ - you appear (to me) to be giving carte blanche to any research just in case it might happen to produce results.
Scietists have been saying "give us more freedom" for years - constantly pushing back the barriers, yet no real benefits have been produced.
Ooh no, ITK, I gave you the wrong impression there. I wouldn't want to give anyone in a position of influence carte blanche to do anything, human nature being what it is. I do think it's a bit odd to say science has given us no real benefits though. Plenty of advances in medical science have been made in a mere blink of the eye in evolutionary terms.
JK, I take your point about the chaos theory, but the human population has increased sevenfold in the last 200 years, so Mother Nature isn't doing too well in making us destroy ourselves so far.
Whilest we all agree that there have been some advances in medical science - not as many as are claimed though ! - it's the thought that these people are going to "practise", just in case, that abhors me.
Re your point to JK. There are more than enough resources on this Earth for ALL people, religion has not forced people to accept greed has it (in fact it preaches AGAINST it !)
Nor has religion caused famine etc - but preaches in favour of helping people in these situations rather than spending huge amounts of money on weapons / war etc.
If the defence budgets of all countries (for one year) were spent on helping the poor, then poverty could largely be wiped out within a short time. |
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Anthony |
In The Know wrote:
Anthony
We will have to agree to differ - you appear (to me) to be giving carte blanche to any research just in case it might happen to produce results.
Scietists have been saying "give us more freedom" for years - constantly pushing back the barriers, yet no real benefits have been produced.
Ooh no, ITK, I gave you the wrong impression there. I wouldn't want to give anyone in a position of influence carte blanche to do anything, human nature being what it is. I do think it's a bit odd to say science has given us no real benefits though. Plenty of advances in medical science have been made in a mere blink of the eye in evolutionary terms.
JK, I take your point about the chaos theory, but the human population has increased sevenfold in the last 200 years, so Mother Nature isn't doing too well in making us destroy ourselves so far. |
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JK2006 |
I'm with Anthony on this except... Mother Nature (now she definitely exists) has a way of working out methods of enabling the species to destroy itself.
I'm quite sure embryo research will save thousands of lives in one way and destroy millions in others.
It's the chaos theory. And I have great belief in chaos. |
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