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To: RunningWolf
My problem isn't with your construction "Scientists say..." that is a generalization, but OK.

I'll use it. 'Scientists say that the earth orbits the sun.' Or 'Scientists say that non material explanations are not scientific."

My problem was with your "Scientists say it is good/evil." When someone delves into the realm of good and evil they are not doing so as "a Scientist" but as a human being with a morality system.

Science is not a morality system.

Moreover many Scientists are of differing opinions on almost any subject not directly related to science. Such as the nature of good and evil.

So as you don't think I'm avoiding the question (although it has absolutely nothing to do with what I was talking about, unless your going to say that only Scientists have abortions, and that this was over a dispute on Scientific interpretation (as the illogical postings of those who attribute the murders of Nazi's and Commie's to Scientific dispute are attempting)), here is my opinion.

I think (not as a Scientist mind you, but as a human) that creating human life for experimentation is evil. However I am glad that President George W. Bush was the first President to authorize embryonic stem cell research on cell lines that were already established. To let something of value go to waste is also evil; although of a less sinister nature.
320 posted on 09/28/2005 9:23:43 AM PDT by Mylo ( scientific discovery is also an occasion of worship.)
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To: Mylo
Okay I hear you.

Such as the nature of good and evil, man-kind does it.

Sometimes when man does it he's in the role of a scientist, other times he's a megalomaniac like Hitler, sometimes he's just the night worker at the gas chamber, sometimes he's in the role a deluded priest, sometimes he's the head of the ACLU, sometimes he's terrorist at the controls of an airplane, and on and on and on.

Wolf
321 posted on 09/28/2005 1:55:47 PM PDT by RunningWolf (U.S. Army Veteran.....75-78)
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