Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Recently, President Obama signed for embryonic stem cell reseach. I think it will help with so many diseases. It's a controversial subject and I know life begins at conception which is a proven fact by scientists. I studied cell division, however, when does the soul enter is another question. The Muslim religion believes life doesn't begin until 120 days after conception. Therefore, Saudi Arabia, is so advanced on embryonic stem cell research. How do you feel about this subject?

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• stem
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[mavriksfan11]

@Thereminized But embryos aren't alive. They've cloned human embryos from skin cells, and no one heralded this as the first cloned human being because no rational people believe that embryos are living human beings.

[mavriksfan11]

Life doesn't begin at conception. What science has proven this to you?! In fact, they recently cloned human embryos from human skin cells and bypassed the conception step altogether, proving that it is not necessary for life! I can send you the article if you'd like to read it.

[lookout5610]

@rad just because we don't understand what it is. God gave it to us so human babies and all other humans have it. Even you because you are human.

[lookout5610]

All I can say is that the embryos you call them. When the rapture happens they will be in God's Heaven.

[Thereminized]

Embryonic stem cell research "creates" then kills a baby -- that's a human life! Embryonic stem cell experiments are totally stupid!

[Radetzky19]

@ignatius So, just because you believe human beings outside the womb have souls (which is still debatable because there is no one definition of the word soul), does not prove that blastocysts do. One still cannot even prove live human beings have souls! Ppl have diff ideas on what a 'soul' is, but it still cannot be proven

[Radetzky19]

@ ignatius even if you were right and a blastocyst is a human being you mess up later on int he quote. You say that if all human beings have souls then blastocysts have souls. Another logic gap. Human beings alive like you and me you can say have souls but just because we have souls now does no mean that blastocysts have proven souls. You just ignored my post from a couple days ago that you cannot prove blastocysts have souls.

[Radetzky19]

no lol a human blastocyst is not actually a physical human being because it is simply a blastocyst. No brain, no human parts just a collection of cells which will eventually become a human being. A blastocyst is not itself a human being; alot of prolifers like to say a blastocyst is a human being but they are wrong by definition. You are using an expected outcome (human being) as a definition for something previous in the process. That is a logic gap.

[ignatiusofantioch2]

No, the right question should be " Is a human blastocyst, a human being?"

Then, the argument is this, "If a blastocyst is a human being, and if all human beings have souls, then, blastocysts have souls."

[mia0899cs]

@Radetzky19 Thank you!