Romney going to announce the VP Pick on Saturday morning

[syntaxmachine]

You're fixation with the bible is getting tiresome....the fact remains, a harvested human embryo is not the same thing as the cells on your arm.  If they were, we'd be researching cells on our arms.

They are researching the cells on our arms: embryonic stem cells are derivable from skin cells. These cells can in turn be developed into embryos. There is no principled difference between harvesting a set of stem cells from a cluster of ~100 skin cells from your nose and another set derived from the ~100 cells of a blastocyst. The two are thus logically equivalent.

Since this is the case, if you think terminating a blastocyst is somehow "wrong" or "killing human life," you logically ought to think scratching your nose is something akin to genocide. Obviously, this is a stupid belief. And thus, it is also a stupid belief in the case of blastocysts.

[flipper5470]

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=bioethics_papers

Wow..there seems to be a lot of ethical concern being taken re the care and disposal of embryos...it's as if there's an understanding that they aren't just a collection of cells.   You sound like a typical narrow minded scientist...unwilling to consider the ehtics behind the research.  It's people like you who develop chemical weapons... 

[King Shizzo]

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=bioethics_papers

Wow..there seems to be a lot of ethical concern being taken re the care and disposal of embryos...it's as if there's an understanding that they aren't just a collection of cells.   You sound like a typical narrow minded scientist...unwilling to consider the ehtics behind the research.  It's people like you who develop chemical weapons... 

do ethics go hand and hand with the belief in god?

[flipper5470]

Of course not...my belief in a higher being has wavered over the years.  My personal morality has largely remained unchanged...even during the period of time that I was pretty much agnostic.

[flipper5470]

to add to that..if all you're doing is following the dictates of others..you don't have anything.  No morals...no thoughts...no ideas...question thepeople  you disagree with closely. Question the people you agree with more closely