Getting a bit creepier--kinda

Human embryos have now almost been created from human cells. We all knew the day was coming, but it's now rapidly approaching, apparently (the results have some scientists skeptical, from the article). Still, if a monkey embryo can be created (as your devoted blogger pointed to), it's gonna happen soon.

The Vatican is opposed, of course, calling it the "worst type of exploitation of the human being". Using little boys for a shwantz-hammock is cool, but making stem cells in the interest of curing disease....how awful!

I'm mostly supportive, of course, but it is kinda creepy to me--I'll be honest. I find it anything but exploitive, but it is potentially dangerous (as any great advance in science is: see nuclear technology). But stopping science has seemed to always prove poisonous and futile. The Church still doesn't seem to have learned this, but these are the same people that only recently pardoned Galileo. One thing the church and I have absolutely in common: it doesn't matter what we think; it's going to happen anyway. Seems like we should just pay attention to it and hope it yields some fantastic things--as it seems to be able to.