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Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal. (More)
Story and picture source: www.bbc.co.uk
April 6th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
There has been quite a big backlash from the Catholic Church over this research. Their anger is based on the idea that human the human soul starts life at the moment of inception, and that a human sperm should never be used for anything other than fertilising a human embryo. They don’t seem to have noticed that neither are used in this process.
You could argue that we are ‘playing God’, which is rather a null arguement in a country that claims to be over 60% atheist (The Economist april 2008).
Many treatments have evolved recently using similar approaches, treatments that save or improve the quality of life for thousands of people. Would the world be a better and more godly place if these people were left to die or suffer in painful and often humiliating ways?