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[Jedi Master Pikachu]

To some extent, that is the case. Even on non-abortion/euthanasia topics.

Take plain 'ole genetics, for instance. So many behavioral and personality aspects and characteristics are being treated as based on genetics or epigenetics. And then there are chemicals from diets and malformed body parts (organs, glands, etc.). On one level, those things probably do influence personality, behavior, temperment, etc., but there's danger in ascribing everything to chemical reactions.

There's more to humanity than hormones and neurotransmitters.

[Berlin_Freeper]

It’s my personal belief that man will cross the red line one day with all this human cloning stuff and that is when the end of the world will be.

[RightWhale]

No one, not even the Pope, knows the meaning of the word ‘dignity’ but we use it all the time. Some kind of verbal ornament.

[RobRoy]

Raw science does not shatter human dignity. What people do with it does though. How they go about practicing it can also do it.

[BaBaStooey]

Mankind crossed a line when Satan tempted with the words “ye shall be as Gods.” They were cast out of Paradise.

Clearly, to play God would be to place the future of your soul at risk. The Pope is in the business of delivering as many of these souls to Paradise as possible. Therefore, we should not play God, we should not fiddle around with God’s Creation in such a manner, and the Church’s teaching on abortion/euthanasia/contraception/embryonic stem cells is so clear in this area, it baffles me that more people do not understand it.

Of course, there are those who do not worry about the fate of their soul, because they do not believe. I pray that God tears down the imperfect walls these people have constructed around their hardened hearts (I say imperfect, because humans aren’t perfect, and God will find a way to bring your walls down).

[the invisib1e hand]

God bless the Pope. Ave Maria.

[Revolting cat!]

God Bless the Pope.

[humblegunner]

Pope says some science shatters human dignity

He's warning you!!!

[Dajjal]

Last year scientists reported they had tricked ordinary skin cells into behaving like embryonic stem cells.

The Pope said the Church "appreciates and encourages" research on stem cells that come from other parts of the body and do not involve embryos or their destruction.

I doubt that Pope Benedict's advisors have explained to him that one of the developments from "tricking skin cells into becoming stem cells" is that now two men will be able to have a baby.

Scientists will be able to "trick" one man's skin cell into becoming an egg, which can then be fertilized with another man's sperm.

Or, likewise, a woman's skin cell could be "tricked" into becoming a sperm cell, so that two women will be able to have a child.

[Antoninus]

Funny, I didn't see him say "some science shatters human dignity".

Then again, I have to assume that in the of Dr. Mengele and others, even SciAm would have to admit that "some science shatters human dignity."

Science without ethics is a tool of the devil.