I don't mean to say this to belittle your beliefs. I ask in pure curiosity, I assure you.
Being a microbiologist and a Muslim, would it bother you if your work helped me have a tastier and less prone to foodborne illness pulled pork sandwich?
The Catholic catechism says that anyone who follows the laws of their God, believes Jesus is the begotten son of their God who died for the forgiveness of sins, undergoes Baptism, and worships their God to the best of their understanding will go to their Heaven and live forever with their God.
A more authoritative but less well marked-up page is to be found on the Vatican website. Search for "Wounds to Unity". The Catholic church for years has accepted all Christians as saved, although they tend to believe it's a saving through their splintered brotherhood in Christianity with the Catholics than through their own churches so much.
Some people do name and bury their stillborn offspring, while others don't. It's a choice I'm happy to let them make. I'm not going to pay for the headstone, though, not even through general revenue taxes.
So it's funny then that you object when the law signed by your Democratic President Barack Obama disallows the funding by proper statutory means as per the Constitution.
.... and signed into law in 2009 by then-President Barack Obama. It's funny how the current budgetary law signed by the current President keeps getting left out of the current discussion of current lawsuits over what is currently the law.
I accept evolution in the small and the large. I also know from a philosophical standpoint that it has no bearing on whether some super intelligent being possibly could have meddled in or started the process. What we can't know isn't disproved by science any more than it is proved by science. It's simply unscientific to use it as an explanation if there's a simpler explanation available, but that doesn't mean it might not have worked that way.
Whether you believe something that is down to belief without any provability for or against is just that -- belief.
President Bush announced, on August 9, 2001 that federal funds, for the first time, would be made available for hESC research on currently existing embryonic stem cell lines. President Bush authorized research on existing human embryonic stem cell lines, not on human embryos under a specific, unrealistic timeline in which the stem cell lines must have been developed. However, the Bush Administration chose not to permit taxpayer funding for research on hESC cell lines not currently in existence, thus limiting federal funding to research in which "the life-and-death decision has already been made".[39] The Bush Administration's guidelines differ from the Clinton Administration guidelines which did not distinguish between currently existing and not-yet-existing hESC. Both the Bush and Clinton guidelines agree that the federal government should not fund hESC research that directly destroys embryos.
Before Bush, there was no Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research AT ALL. He delayed the decision to fund it, and he approved it only on existing lines, but he's the one who approved it in the first place.
On March 9, 2009, President Obama removed the restriction on federal funding for newer stem cell lines. [48] Two days after Obama removed the restriction, the President then signed the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, which still contained the long-standing Dickey-Wicker provision which bans federal funding of "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death;"[49] the Congressional provision effectively prevents federal funding being used to create new stem cell lines by many of the known methods. So, while scientists might not be free to create new lines with federal funding, President Obama's policy allows the potential of applying for such funding into research involving the hundreds of existing stem cell lines as well as any further lines created using private funds or state-level funding. The ability to apply for federal funding for stem cell lines created in the private sector is a significant expansion of options over the limits imposed by President Bush, who restricted funding to the 21 viable stem cell lines that were created before he announced his decision in 2001.[50] The ethical concerns raised during Clinton's time in office continue to restrict hESC research and dozens of stem cell lines have been excluded from funding, now by judgment of an administrative office rather than Presidential or legislative discretion.[51]
So get it straight. Bush allowed the first Federal funding for embryonic stem cell testing. Obama signed into law the actual statutory ban on destroying embryos for research. He (Obama) then tried to set executive policy in contrast to the law he signed.
No matter what you think of Bush and no matter what you think of Obama, this is not Bush's ban. It's Obama's.
Maybe we could even get a pen for it and make the combination pressure-sensitive. Imagine what it could do for artists and drafters. I'm going to start a company doing this. I'll call it "Wacom".
I imagine pulling this promise would result in a class action. Lawyers love juicy class actions against big industries and tend to take them on contingency.
We do not know that for a fact. You forget the principle of provability works both ways. You cannot fashion an experiment which confirms or disproves a soul. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and it doesn't mean it does. It means we don't know and can't know. It means it is beyond science to answer.
Even invoking Occam's Razor, that only says that the simplest explanation is likely to be right. It doesn't mean the simplest answer always is right. The universe might be more convoluted than any mystic or religious zealot has ever imagined.
What matters to science is what can be tested and observed objectively. The very definition of a soul is outside that realm.
"Social networking website" is nearly every website in existence these days to some extent.The idea of using a computer to let people communicate as a group long predates Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, or Friendster.
I thought the phonebook was a way to look up your friends before facebook was. Or your little black book. Or your datebook. Or your yearbook. Or your address book.
Read Malthus. Fewer people with the same resources, more resources per person. It may not be completely right, but it makes sense. It's understandable people think that way, although it'd probably be better if we figured out how to better manage and reuse the resources more often.
These days a medical card and the sniffles land many people in the ER, because nobody with access to public pursestrings seems to understand the benefits of prevention.
I must disagree with your conclusion based on your premises. If the human race has spawned RIAA lawyers which will live on and evolve after humanity is gone, I think we've left the world a much worse place with our presence.
There are blacks downstate, too. I guess you've never been to Springfield, Decatur, Peoria, East St. Louis, the Quad Cities, or anywhere else outside the collar counties to say such a thing.
As for the "North of I-80" issue, politicians thinking only of the northeastern corner of the state really is a problem. More than half the population of the state lives outside the Chicago and suburban Chicago areas. We deserve to benefit from our own taxes for schools, arts, and transportation just as much as the huge conglomeration on the lake.
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I don't mean to say this to belittle your beliefs. I ask in pure curiosity, I assure you.
Being a microbiologist and a Muslim, would it bother you if your work helped me have a tastier and less prone to foodborne illness pulled pork sandwich?
The Catholic catechism says that anyone who follows the laws of their God, believes Jesus is the begotten son of their God who died for the forgiveness of sins, undergoes Baptism, and worships their God to the best of their understanding will go to their Heaven and live forever with their God.
Catholic catechism: profession of faith
A more authoritative but less well marked-up page is to be found on the Vatican website. Search for "Wounds to Unity". The Catholic church for years has accepted all Christians as saved, although they tend to believe it's a saving through their splintered brotherhood in Christianity with the Catholics than through their own churches so much.
Some people do name and bury their stillborn offspring, while others don't. It's a choice I'm happy to let them make. I'm not going to pay for the headstone, though, not even through general revenue taxes.
So it's funny then that you object when the law signed by your Democratic President Barack Obama disallows the funding by proper statutory means as per the Constitution.
Obama signs budget including this ban.
BTW, Clinton signed the original law with the original ban. Quit blaming Bush, who opened up funding for eight existing lines.
.... and signed into law in 2009 by then-President Barack Obama. It's funny how the current budgetary law signed by the current President keeps getting left out of the current discussion of current lawsuits over what is currently the law.
What the hell are you talking about? Much of the US doesn't have intact pipes and safe bridges right now.
I accept evolution in the small and the large. I also know from a philosophical standpoint that it has no bearing on whether some super intelligent being possibly could have meddled in or started the process. What we can't know isn't disproved by science any more than it is proved by science. It's simply unscientific to use it as an explanation if there's a simpler explanation available, but that doesn't mean it might not have worked that way.
Whether you believe something that is down to belief without any provability for or against is just that -- belief.
I think very few people are opposed to "stem cell research". I think the problem stems from the "embryonic" part.
So debate by representatives who take into account the multiple viewpoints of the people who elected them is not rational?
It's called ad hominem. He's an atheist, so theists can't have any good ideas.
This is a lawsuit that cites Federal statutory law which Obama signed .
Read a source. Even Wikipedia, from which the following quotes are taken.
Before Bush, there was no Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research AT ALL. He delayed the decision to fund it, and he approved it only on existing lines, but he's the one who approved it in the first place.
So get it straight. Bush allowed the first Federal funding for embryonic stem cell testing. Obama signed into law the actual statutory ban on destroying embryos for research. He (Obama) then tried to set executive policy in contrast to the law he signed.
No matter what you think of Bush and no matter what you think of Obama, this is not Bush's ban. It's Obama's.
Maybe we could even get a pen for it and make the combination pressure-sensitive. Imagine what it could do for artists and drafters. I'm going to start a company doing this. I'll call it "Wacom".
It sucks even more on an IOS device. Damn Apple and Sony for stealing other companies' acronyms.
I imagine pulling this promise would result in a class action. Lawyers love juicy class actions against big industries and tend to take them on contingency.
We do not know that for a fact. You forget the principle of provability works both ways. You cannot fashion an experiment which confirms or disproves a soul. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and it doesn't mean it does. It means we don't know and can't know. It means it is beyond science to answer.
Even invoking Occam's Razor, that only says that the simplest explanation is likely to be right. It doesn't mean the simplest answer always is right. The universe might be more convoluted than any mystic or religious zealot has ever imagined.
What matters to science is what can be tested and observed objectively. The very definition of a soul is outside that realm.
It shows how restrained IBM's legal team is that they never sued Sony over the PS/2 trademark.
"Social networking website" is nearly every website in existence these days to some extent.The idea of using a computer to let people communicate as a group long predates Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, or Friendster.
I thought the phonebook was a way to look up your friends before facebook was. Or your little black book. Or your datebook. Or your yearbook. Or your address book.
Silly me.
Read Malthus. Fewer people with the same resources, more resources per person. It may not be completely right, but it makes sense. It's understandable people think that way, although it'd probably be better if we figured out how to better manage and reuse the resources more often.
These days a medical card and the sniffles land many people in the ER, because nobody with access to public pursestrings seems to understand the benefits of prevention.
IMO first aid should be a required class beginning in about the 6th grade, right along with household and small business microeconomics.
There's a good chance he's right. Unfortunately, since we keep adding to the problem, humans just might have to be eliminated for that to work.
I must disagree with your conclusion based on your premises. If the human race has spawned RIAA lawyers which will live on and evolve after humanity is gone, I think we've left the world a much worse place with our presence.
There are blacks downstate, too. I guess you've never been to Springfield, Decatur, Peoria, East St. Louis, the Quad Cities, or anywhere else outside the collar counties to say such a thing.
As for the "North of I-80" issue, politicians thinking only of the northeastern corner of the state really is a problem. More than half the population of the state lives outside the Chicago and suburban Chicago areas. We deserve to benefit from our own taxes for schools, arts, and transportation just as much as the huge conglomeration on the lake.