Comments on: UK’s first hybrid embryos created http://darthmccarth.co.uk/2008/04/01/uks-first-hybrid-embryos-created The Darth One!!! Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Giles Smith http://darthmccarth.co.uk/2008/04/01/uks-first-hybrid-embryos-created/comment-page-1#comment-21 Giles Smith Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:12:16 +0000 http://darthmccarth.co.uk/?p=50#comment-21 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? 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?

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