Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity'

eldavojohn writes "Today in a speech the pope denounced human cloning, embryonic stem cell research and artificial insemination, citing them as a violation of 'human dignity.' That said, the pope did 'appreciate and encourage' research on stem cells from non-embryonic cells in the human body. The pope encouraged the Vatican to be a leading voice in the philosophy and discussion of bioethics. 'Church teaching certainly cannot and must not weigh in on every novelty of science, but it has the task to reiterate the great values which are on the line and to propose to faithful and all men of good will ethical-moral principles and direction for new, important questions,' Benedict said."

Comments

Re:Affront to Human Dignity?

[kidgenius]

Wow, Godwin showed up pretty early today.

Re:Big deal

[sm62704]

Insightful? The above post shows no insight whatever. God is NOT an"invisible super-beings thing". That would be a black hole or an antiphoton, not God. God is only invisible to those who close their eyes to him.

I am deeply offended by the parent poster's rhetoric. The above post was flambait and should be modded as such, whatever your beliefs. Do I have to flame your God Damned ass to prove it to the stupoid fucktard mods?

Fuck off, asshole.

Re:Secular Humanism

[drooling-dog]

Once the concept of innate human dignity is gone, you end up with societies where human beings are nothing more than raw material for the State machine. Or merely sheep, whose only purpose in life is to worship and exalt some divine power, as well as the human authorities that claim to embody or represent it.

Re:A non religeous analogy

[lgw]

Al Gore and the Nobel committee I thought that environmental scientientists had disowned Algore as a distraction and a kook?