Slashdot Mirror
Scientists Give Human Organs to Lamb
TK Interior writes "Myrtle Beach Online reports the existence of a lamb-human chimera-- a blend of two different species. Not only has a lamb been given a human liver and heart, but mice are sporting human brain cells. At what level is a chimera 'too' human? Where do you draw the line between human and animal? How will this affect evolution?"
would be the best people to know especially that they are mysteriously able to pin-point the time when a fetus is "alive" and has his/her own "soul".
The next thing you know is that they are passing a legistlation to prevent "lamb abortions"!
Of course you assume that there is some unobjectionable reason to maintain the current grouping system. The system of species sorting is centered around differences in gross anatomy isn't it? That is pretty much arbitrary.
Why not classify entities (living and non-living) along the lines of cognitive ability, or moral agency? In those scenarios it would be pretty accurate to assume that humans aren't animals.
Go take a high school Philosophy course. (See how ending posts with sentences like that is not at all constructive? At best you look like a know-it-all jerk at worst you are actually wrong and you look like a moron who thinks, mistakenly, that he is a know-it-all jerk.)
-Civility, it's a good thing.
No, the same people who claim Darwin was right and that there is no God, also feel some compelling need to try to prove Darwin wrong by protecting those who are not able to survive by natural means.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Great troll. It absolutely is about DNA.
Your view sounds so much like creationism it's funny. Just because you don't understand how DNA and organisms work doesn't mean that there's a special secret variable that science doesn't understand but you do.
What's actually happening is that althrough your "snot" has the same genetic material as you do, the specific genes for it turning into a human are disabled. It's really that simple and, in the right environment, your "snot" would grow into a human being almost exactly like you (variability in transcription will lead to some differences, environment and upbringing will lead to others.)
And, by the way, since you realize that DNA is stored in every cell of your body, you should realize that replacing 20% of those cells with lamb cells will lead you to be 20% lamb and 80% human.