NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research

sciencehabit writes "Responding to a court order issued a week ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday ordered intramural researchers studying human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to shut down their experiments. NIH's action — probably unprecedented in its history — is a response to a preliminary injunction on 23 August from US District Judge Royce Lamberth. The judge ruled that the Obama policy allowing NIH funding to be used to study hESC lines violates a law prohibiting the use of federal funds to destroy embryos."

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Re:Lets be fair then,

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If someone wants to exclude by definition any research that has gone into “modern” (i.e. post-Darwin) science, as Daniel Dvorkin suggested, from anything that could possibly have been achieved via creationism, how is it simultaneously fair to build it upon the work of the pre-Darwin scientists who worked largely from a creationist point of view and who made tremendous contributions to what is known today as modern science?

It is inherently unfair to assume that all scientific discoveries that have been made since Darwin could never have been made by creationism and creationists shouldn’t be allowed to benefit from them. Doubly so when you consider that the principles upon which these scientists have built were largely discovered and mapped out by pre-Darwin scientists who did believe in a creation.