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MIT Certifies Biological Engineering Major
chrisd writes "In same week that Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney reitereates his opposition to stem cell research, MIT has certified its first new major in 29 years, Biological Engineering. The boston globe has a solid writeup about the biotech major."
The name's Sinister. Mr. Sinister. Specializing in mutations.
All MIT geeks rushed to change their major in the hopes that they could engineer the perfect female obje^H^H^H^H companion that would get them laid.
This would have been a degree that I would have been interested in. This is a field that has a whole lot of growth potential. Hopefully with students flocking to this profession we will see some major innovation.
I for one welcome our genetic engineering overlords.
now lets get on that woodchuck problem
air and light and time and space
It's just moreau the same...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Does this negate my degree in Phernology? The Dean did mention there might be a few bumps in the road...
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Great, like we need -more- god complexes running around MIT...
The students first project will be to put bamboo genes into marijuana plants. Once they succeed, their their tuition fees will be paid for the rest of their time at MIT.
First, let me say that I don't want to make any assumptions about you. I respect you, I respect that you are discussing this hot topic so civilly, and more than that I would not think any less or more of your views regardless of whether they come from your religious authority or you come to them on your own.
I mentioned the (by implication, Christian) bible just because most RtL proponets are Christians; no comment on you personally at all. Honestly.
You say you consider the gametes in semen to be more like skin cells. These are human life, but they are not a human being. So, by your definition, masturbation is not murder. You claim that spilling seed does not destroy life. This is quite reasonable and logical. You are not out on a limb with this assertion either. Many, many people agree with you.
But let's say that I don't.
I say that each sperm is a life that could have been. That should have been.
A skin cell will never become a human being. But this is a sperm. Becomnig a human being is what God made it to do.
You can say that a sperm is not a human being because, unlike the fertilized ovum, it isn't going to mature into an adult all by itself. But I say that a fertilized ovum is not going to mature into an adult all by itself either. It, just like the sperm, depends on billions of other cells within the woman, without them it is every bit as doomed as the sperm.
I can quote the bible to back me up. Of course, we differ over its interpretation, but this is what scholars have been doing for millenia - differing over how to interpret the bible. I also have science to back me up. And of course, we differ over the interpretation of scientific data and claim conflicting things are facts.
In the meantime, I demand that you stop masturbating, on pain of prison or death. Prison or death is our punishment for murderers.
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