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Science is the search for truth, so in this respect, it seeks to better human life. Plumbing also has the goal of bettering human life.
Scientists (or plumbers for that matter), can make bad choices. They are far from immune from doing wrong.Is Dr.Mengale celebrated by the good professor just because he was a scientist? I am sure Mengale thought he was going to improve human life, and safe from the gaze of scrutiny, went about trying to achieve that. One must wonder why we cant scrutinize what scientists are doing then?
Technology, the application of science, is the issue we are discussing. You dont need to be religious to ask the question if this is the right way forward for humanity.
During the great plague of London, the doctors were called in to give their opinion. Their solution? “We think it is coming from all the stray cats so we need to get them out of London.” To their surprise, after waging war on Felix, the numbers of infections increased. Why? Because it was really the rats who were to blame, as they were carrying the fleas who had the desease. Felix was keeping the rat numbers down until he was falsely accused.
But even if the science is correct and right, we then need to discuss how we are going to apply this knowledge to our life. Is the Professor arguing every application of knowledge is good? (refer back to Mengale, or nuclear weapon proliferation, or germ warfare).
The issue is: Will what we are doing better humanity? And the answer is not simply the short term result. You might well find a cure for ingrown toenails through embryo destruction, you might find the cure for cancer, we dont know. But what effects do the destruction of embryoes have on humanity. Is this part of it acceptable? Since we are still debating the ethics of embryo destruction, why do we need to rush ahead? Since we can get the stem cells without destroying the embryo, what is your real agenda here? It seems to me this is more about your views on what a human person is. And yes, we need to discuss that since we dont agree on it, but dont use stem cells as your argument for it being necessary, because that is not the truth. Due to recent discoveries, we can get any stem cell, even embryonic stem cells, without destroying the embryo.
Your real agenda, Professor, seems to be about trying to rush through the public debate on whether an embryo is human life. “Quick, Christopher Reeves is on his last legs, we need action!”. If you really admire “the truth” so much, why cant we have time to consider this as a community?
The claim that we need to destroy embryoes to get the stem cells is not the current science.