The announcement that the UK Government may ban this scientific research has prompted a lot of discussion in the media (e.g. BBC News website).
Before ranting on about the moral and ethical implications of this, it is always useful to check the facts... If scientists are taking the egg from a cow and removing all its contents before putting in human DNA from a stem cell, resulting in an embryo that is 99.99% human, that is a bit like putting a Snickers bar inside a Mars bar wrapper, and an ethical or moralistic argument against it cannot really be sustained...
However, the question that remains - and on which a variety of objectors should continue to focus - is, "From where and how are the stem cells obtained?"
This blog was originally created as a forum for comments/discussion on the content of my Geosccience and Jesus - The Case for Co-habitation (Geosus) website, although I have now decided to widen its purpose. However, the great thing about blogs is that they "give frustrated authors everywhere a voice in cyberspace". So, here is my contribution to the deafening cacophony of opinions...
