Disturbing Biology lesson.

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Grey

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So I'm currently taking biology courses, and we started talking about Stem-Cell research, and the teacher asked us to write a paper about our stance on stem cell research but only have your opinion backed up by scientific justifications and not religion. Now a little bio lesson for you, stem cells have regenerative properties you can essentially replace dead cells with them. I went into detail that it would be unnatural to extend life artificially and blah blah blah, I'm a fairly good writer so I'll see if my position may effect my grade ;). I'm defiantly anti- stem cell research.


Man is not God!

Discuss amongst yourselves.
 
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Grey

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Actually, heres the paper I wrote :p


I am against stem cell research and development because of the possibility of future repercussions as a result of its widespread use. Stem cell treatment has been hailed as a scientific miracle, and the use of it with cancer patients who have lost cells during treatment has shown positive results. There is also great potential to correct brain damage, caner, spinal injury, heart damage, deafness, and other injuries and diseases. Now imagine if this process was put into mass production and used in day-to-day medical operations. Stem cells, when undifferentiated, can differentiate and take the place of damaged cells in the human body, disregarding how the stem cells were collected I still find the possibility of the widespread usage of stem cell treatment as, ironically, harmful. If stem cells could be used on everyone to afford them, they could greatly extend their lifetimes, and as stem cell treatment continues to be perfected they could live longer and longer, perhaps in the far off future, forever. In fact Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist, suggested that eventually science (with the usage of stem cells) could “cure” aging. Though at first the idea of immortality seems wonderful, I find it to be quite the opposite. If humans were able to live forever, they would be able to keep producing children, and hence, greatly increase the population. If a large enough amount of people were unable to die then the world would eventually become grossly overpopulated. But that’s just in the long-term, in the short term the idea of immortality could greatly upset those unable to afford it and could cause widespread controversy and conflict. So I believe that although stem cell treatment could greatly benefit mankind in the short-term, in the long term the possibility of greatly extended life or immortality would go averse to nature and greatly harm the human race.
 
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jimmydiggs

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Grey said:
and the teacher asked us to write a paper about our stance on stem cell research but only have your opinion backed up by scientific justifications and not religion
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I see no logical reason to be opposed to anything without a religious motivation.

Whats Spaghetti without garlic!?!?!
 
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Grey

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jimmydiggs said:
I see no logical reason to be opposed to anything without a religious motivation.

Whats Spaghetti without garlic!?!?!
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That's exactly what I thought, basically the teacher is telling us to put our morals aside. Though I'm like one of 5 out of 20 that disagree with stem cell research.
 
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jimmydiggs

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Grey said:
That's exactly what I thought, basically the teacher is telling us to put our morals aside. Though I'm like one of 5 out of 20 that disagree with stem cell research.
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I don't see how one could set aside morals and argue against anything (or for).


Even if you use the scientific implications, without bringing morals into the picture, there's no reason why one should not DO something, or why one SHOULD do something.



Epic fail of an assignment if you ask me...
 
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Grey

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jimmydiggs said:
I don't see how one could set aside morals and argue against anything (or for).


Even if you use the scientific implications, without bringing morals into the picture, there's no reason why one should not DO something, or why one SHOULD do something.



Epic fail of an assignment if you ask me...
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Your reading my mind, I enjoy most of my classes there, but the Biology class is just, meh. Most people are anti-theists, one person even argued that a human life begins parasitically (thankfully the teacher wasn't that person).
 
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jimmydiggs

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Grey said:
Your reading my mind, I enjoy most of my classes there, but the Biology class is just, meh. Most people are anti-theists, one person even argued that a human life begins parasitically (thankfully the teacher wasn't that person).
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Hey, it'll be good pereparation for a college campus if you end up on one.
 
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jimmydiggs said:
Hey, it'll be good pereparation for a college campus if you end up on one.
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Meh, the school claims it's unassociated with any religion and yet it has a giant painting of a Buddhist monk on the wall as well as a buddhist temple.
 
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It seems discrimitive to not allow a religious view, since this is the basis of all life for many, and the reason looked to in the rejection of stem cells.
You spoke a good argument, but Id be concerned about the teacher being discrimitive even without the religious basis.
I believe that religion is one of many scientific possibuilities of life its self and I would have to question why the teacher is unwilling to recognise this on a basis of all thigs being given equal thought.
You did a good job on your argument, but maby a simple second statement of why the rejection and discrimination towards one of the most strongly debated issues of today, science recognises this issue, so why not your teacher?
Good luck and God bless. :)
pickles
 
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Grey

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pickles said:
It seems discrimitive to not allow a religious view, since this is the basis of all life for many, and the reason looked to in the rejection of stem cells.
You spoke a good argument, but Id be concerned about the teacher being discrimitive even without the religious basis.
I believe that religion is one of many scientific possibuilities of life its self and I would have to question why the teacher is unwilling to recognise this on a basis of all thigs being given equal thought.
You did a good job on your argument, but maby a simple second statement of why the rejection and discrimination towards one of the most strongly debated issues of today, science recognises this issue, so why not your teacher?
Good luck and God bless. :)
pickles
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Thanks for the suggestion!
 
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Your argument could have been much stronger, even without getting 'too religious.'

I hope you get a good grade on it, regardless. But it sounds like your school sucks and your teacher is anti-Christian, so you may get some heat for it.

God be with you, friend. This is what we were warned about.
 
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Grey

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rainacorn said:
Your argument could have been much stronger, even without getting 'too religious.'

I hope you get a good grade on it, regardless. But it sounds like your school sucks and your teacher is anti-Christian, so you may get some heat for it.

God be with you, friend. This is what we were warned about.
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All subjects here are great, but when it comes to science it's staunchly anti-religion.
 
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