From: John Burgeson (hoss_radbourne@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 12:43:46 EDT
Jan wrote, in part: "In studying nature, there are things from which, I
believe, investigators
should stay away. For example, some research in biology involving
embryos...These are things which can be easily reasoned."
Easily reasoned, perhaps, but you imply the answers are easily found. Having
been in an ethics class where such was discussed, I did not discern easy
answers, even from my more conservative colleagues. Human reproduction
remains a PROCESS, and reasonable people, devout, committed Christians among
them, do not agree on when in that process a human being can be identified.
My own position is that the point is quite early in the process, but I have
at least one clergy friend, who is also a professor of philosophy in Texas,
who holds that it is quite late -- perhaps not until the 3rd or 4th month of
pregnancy. I think him to be wrong; I have no arguments which are compelling
for my own position, unfortunately.
>>It is much more difficult to show that much of modern research is
>>motivated by men wanting to play God.>>
Perhaps that may be because the statement is not true.Or, more likely, it is
because all of us do most of the things we do on the basis of mixed, and
only partially understood, motives. Which makes the questioning of a
person's motives in most cases a futile, as well as an uncivil, exercise.
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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