Catholic Bishops lie. Whole world is shocked.
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by blue collar scientistThe Great Beyond reports on Catholic opposition to a genetics bill currently in Britain’s parliament. A parish briefing document (pdf) claims:
The bill will allow scientists to create embryos that are half human, half animal. For example, from the egg of a woman and sperm from an animal. To do this would be a radical violation of human dignity.
Yeah, because people walking around with valves ripped from a dead pig’s heart and surgically inserted into their own are so - well, you know, natural, and nothing at all like the monstrous half-human, half-lobster creatures that periodically invade small towns in B movies, and therefore must be consistent with god’s will.
Chris Shaw, professor of neurology and neurogenetics at King’s College London, notes:
The Catholic Bishops’ statement on hybrids is not a radical violation of human dignity as they claim - it is a radical violation of the truth!
It’s probably good that he said “radical violation of the truth” instead of the more plain-spoken “radical lie” - the latter might alienate some people who are undecided that we’d rather keep on the side of reason. But really, that is what is meant, and the BCS sometimes longs to hear people tell it like it really is.
In any case, the process is sperm-free, and involves the injection of engineered genetic material containing alleles that might just happen to exist in other animals (as most human alleles do), as explained in the Great Beyond post.
