My Take on Father Tad Pacholczyk's Spin on Stem Cells and Cloning

My Idiot America segment about the show I saw with Father Tad talking about the REAL truth about cloning and stem cells. If you don't already, I highly recommend getting all your scientific information from a Catholic Priest.

UPDATE:
I should have figured that instead of constructive comments and criticism, I would mostly get mindless blatherings and idiotic rants from the uneducated and brainwashed demographic. I can't really blame them. They're expressing their opinions just as I have. But the point that I try to assert time and time again is that if you have a strong opinion about something which you'd like to share with the world, it does not help your case when you write like a third-grader, using all-caps as if you are shouting, and say things that any reasonable person would think is stupid.

Furthermore, isn't it time you stopped watching Glenn Beck for 5 minutes and came up with a thought or idea of your own? That sort of thing is not helping the brainwashed masses in this country. If Beck spent an hour crying and telling you that fetuses were destroying America, you would all be lined up out the door of your nearest abortion clinic.

This is all I'm trying to say: I don't love abortion, but it is a protected and sometimes necessary constitutional right. I don't like the idea of partial-birth abortions, and I see problems with the legalities involved with it. Nevertheless, my goal is and always has been to draw attention to the ridiculous and insane ideas and propaganda that constantly surround controversial issues like this. Usually it means I have to come up with pretty absurd comparisons and analogies and do whatever else I can think up in hopes of kick-starting your clouded brains just a little bit.

I know this country has a Christian majority, and there are lot of Christian extremists who will shout louder than reasonable Americans and because of that you'll get your way sometimes (which is a sad sad fact). There is no helping the extremists who have already resolved to be extreme. But for the others who have not already turned to the crazy side... they need to see and hear other points of view and be challenged to make up their own minds.

One final note: If you aren't sure what I mean by the extremists/crazies... here's one of my favorite examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hI1mO2eeTY

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[yahooveritas]

Get off the pot dude. Fr. Pacholczyk is brilliant and you are just nuts!

[ThisIsIdiotAmerica]

@yahooveritas Ha, I think your comment is my favorite so far. It sounds like a comment I'd make on someone's video. However, I assure you that I am not on the pot, nor was I when I made the video. And I'm not sure if he's brilliant or not, but I do know that someone can have a brilliant mind yet preach things that are stupid and/or dangerous.

[frbloom]

I am very late stumbling on this entertaining video - and I appreciate your interest in Fr. Tad's presentation on stem cells and cloning.

One question: Regarding the comparison of the embryo as a 2X4 and an adult as a completed house: Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare the embryo to a construction crew with a full blue print in hand? All the embryo needs is food and oxygen to carry out its work.

[ThisIsIdiotAmerica]

@frbloom That would have been a lot harder to illustrate that with my limited graphics skills :) My analogy explains that a baby is more valuable/important than an embryo, so I'm pretty happy with it.

[frbloom]

@ThisIsIdiotAmerica So, is an adult more valuable/important than a child?

[ThisIsIdiotAmerica]

@frbloom Yes, obviously.

[GonzoTheGreat3000]

Science is not philosophy, he has an entirely different philosophy of life than the vast majority of scientists do. He just happens to be wrong there because "God" is an illogical improbability.

[tallymarx]

5) The fallacy of your logic is that a board is not an individual being, a house is composed of a bunch of boards not a single board that grew into a house, and furthermore a house is not an individual being. Your example doesn’t fit. For it to fit, we adults would have to be composed of a bunch of embryos, the way a house is composed of a bunch of boards. House-&-Board deals with composition. Embryo-&-Human deals with time.

[ParanoiaDestroyah]

This is great, I'm doing a report for Biology on embryonic stem cell research, which includes Father Tad's stupid opinions. I just needed one religious drongo like him, perfect.

[ThisIsIdiotAmerica]

@JKRubicon6Speed Dr. Mengela was an esteemed doctor, and that sort of fact makes it easy to disregard the fact that Fr. Tad has a bunch of degrees. And yes, people are not objects. But embryos are. The analogy is sound.

[JKRubicon6Speed]

Even if we disregard the fact that Fr. Tad as an undergraduate he earned degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry. He earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Yale, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transports expressed in the brain. He also worked as a

molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. We must still acknowledge the objective truth that people are not objects. Therefore houses, animals, technology... do not equal human life.