Let's for a second do something that is almost never done.......let's take the anti-stem cell argument to it's most extreme point.
Christians don't favor the research because every living piece of tissue is part of a being with a soul. Thus advances in that area would interfere with God's work, which is considered perfect.
But they don't see anything wrong with organ transplants, which use a piece of a human being with a soul to save anothers life.
I know that this is an extreme argument, but I believe one with merit. If you are against stem cell research, you should also naturally be anti-transplant, but I bet you aren't.
One more thing just occured to me: I've heard christians say that they would never choose to benefit from stem-cell research, because it sometimes involves murdered babies. But if your little one needed a heart or kidney transplant, and the only donor was a kid accidentally shot in a drive by, you would see no problem accepting the organ. What's the difference?
2006-07-18
08:47:01
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