[Radix]

I'd be willing to wage a bet that probably less than 5% of all FReepers have ever taken a Course in Microbiology.

It is not that difficult a Course usually I'd expect for most FReepers.

The notion that there is not the destruction of Human Life involved in embryonic cell research is asinine.

President Bush knows this.

[MHGinTN]

I'm a writer (novels mostly), not a scientists. I've never had micro though I have years of corporate provided education for a career in Pharmaceutical sales. In preparing for a novel, I spent a fair amount of time researching the topics of ESCR, cloning, and abortion. It is my firm belief that an educational process for the masses can be made fast and simple with focus upon the difference between ORGANISMS, and their subunits of life.

I wrote a less-than-100-pages booklet for general layperson familiarity with stem cells, cloning and abortion, from a non-religious perspective, available here for free downloading. Many have downloaded it and I've even had phone calls from persons around the country who have used it in one way or another. It can help with basic understanding, but it has no religious slant. I'm thinking of rewriting it, using less verbatim media material and offering my own personal perspective regarding the sanctity of life, the soul, and spirit. It may already be too late to turn the careening bus around though.

[UpAllNight]

--I'd be willing to wage a bet that probably less than 5% of all FReepers have ever taken a Course in Microbiology.--

Perhaps you mean to say molecular biology.

[RightWhale]

probably less than 5% of all FReepers have ever taken a Course in . . .

With an average IQ of 125 and widely read, the average FReeper could teach whatever undergrad course.