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Originally Posted by FireFly
Back to stem cells though. I think religion is more concerned with the method of extraction than anything. If science can find a way to extract stem cells without creating life and then killing it, that would be fine. It's the creation of life and the killing of it that bothers them.
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That actually may not be far off. There was a study just a couple months ago that dealt with the creation of embryonic stem-cells by coaxing somatic cells to de-differentiate and essentially revert back to an embryonic stem-cell form. So hopefully this entire debate will become redundent within a year or two, but really any delay is pointless.
ps. kudos on the Saramago reference from earlier in the thread. My all-time favorite author.