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- From: ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe)
- Newsgroups: aus.religion
- Subject: Re: God and Science: Are they incompatible?
- Date: 23 Nov 92 04:37:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
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- References: <1992Nov10.025745.9418@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <ricko.721985667@ee.uts.EDU.AU> <1992Nov20.131751.90655@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- phs431d@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
-
- >Although you bring up a valid point about the state of affairs with
- >human genetic engineering at this present time, I think the author
- >was speculating on the moral right to do any genetic tampering
- >at all, even if it could be done without horrible accidents/side-effects.
-
- >There are many great benefits that could arise eg. eliminating genetic
- >diseases, improving immunity, repairing disorders etc. Should we
- >neglect this area of research because God created mankind in a certain
- >pattern? Or are we allowed to improve on it? (Of course, what is
- >considered "improvement" can be subjective).
-
- Is anyone actually proposing a death-free technological development path?
- Or is it just a smoke-screen, presumable unintentional, to avoid the
- looking at the way it actually will be: experiments on living humans,
- women used as guinea pigs, many deaths due to experiments, and the
- development of diagnostic tests to allow early detection and killing of
- babies considered potentially imperfect. And, most certainly, foetus
- farming in third world countries for the rich and immoral.
-
- I hope this isn't too awful for readers: already hospitals use aborted
- foetus tissue in hospitals for experiments (e.g. a friend and former
- employee at Sydney Eye Hostpital mentioned this to me only yesterday). And
- other disturbing practises exist: for example, in order to get brain
- matter for experiments in treating Parkinson's disease, ordinary methods
- of abortion are not good enough, because they either kill or mash the
- foetus too much, so the brain tissue is exracted before the abortion
- proper takes place (according to World Catholic Report magazine): and we
- are horrified by the isolated Japanese vivisection experiments in WWII!
- Having seen my Grandfather die with Parkinson's, I know what a horrible
- thing it is, but such a cure should be forbidden fruit.
-
- -ricko
-