Blending Humans and Animals

[Credo]

Where will this stop?!? This really disgusts me and makes me wonder how much further we can slip before God gets tired of us pretending that we're Him.....

MSNBC: Of Mice, men, and in-between

 

[InnerPhyre]

I can't help but laugh and look to the sky awaiting the fiery rain that will come and destroy us all.

 

[Victrixa]

Some scientists are going insane!

 

[ukok]

excerpt from article

We need to establish some kind of guidelines as to what the scientific community ought to do and ought not to do."

YES, and such guidelines should have been established long before they started messing around with God's beautiful creation.

 

[Wiffey]

The problem with science is they only seem to ask: "CAN we do this", when they need to be asking, "SHOULD we do this..."

 

[princess_ballet]

You know what's sad? Genetic engineering has soooo many wonderful possibilities, but people like this without morals have to ruin it.

 

[Wolseley]

I have read far, far too many Dean Koontz novels to think this sort of stuff is a good idea.

Already, he said, they have learned things they "never would have learned had there been a bioethical ban."

Yeah, and Joseph Mengele learned things he never would have learned if he hadn't been experimenting on inmates at Auschwitz. That doesn't mean we should emulate him, however.

Now Weissman says he is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human. He proposes keeping tabs on the mice as they develop. If the brains look as if they are taking on a distinctly human architecture — a development that could hint at a glimmer of humanness — they could be killed, he said.

But what if they get loose? If they have a human brain, then they could be as smart as any other human. They could figure out ways to outwit the august Dr. Weissman. And if they escaped, then what? They breed and produce more smart mice, who band together and act in concert; they can go places we can't; they can hide places we can't; and we all know how effective rodent control is with regular mice---how about smart ones?

This is not a good idea, folks. Physics was the hot science in 1900, and the result was Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the hydrogen bomb. Now it's biology. The prospects scare the hell out of me.

"Everyone said the mice would be useful," he said. "But no one was sure if it should be done."

And as Ian Malcolm said in Jurassic Park, "You got so excited about the fact that you could do it, you never bothered to ask yourselves if you should do it."

The scientists, of course, haughtily sniffed at his concerns.

Right before they were eaten by the carniverous dinosaurs.

 

[CeeBee]

sickening.
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

 

[St_Joseph_Cupertino]

The problem with science is they only seem to ask: "CAN we do this", when they need to be asking, "SHOULD we do this..."

Quote from Jurassic Park 1993:

Jeff Goldblum: "Your scientists were so pre-occupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should."

Very apt....no?

 

[Cjwinnit]

This is insane.