Dear Beatrix: First of all: forgive me my rought English. It's only my third language, being Russian the first one and Spanish the second. I have read your...
hucklebird@... writes: << But to look in the mirror is to see our selves, our true beauty, though the landslide will take our idols far from us; swept away...
Hello Dimitry, interestingly David Brin lives here in the San Diego area (where I live as well). Occasionally I have attended some of his lectures which he...
... a ... Architect ... paths. ... in the ... Initiation" ... Hello Beatrix Not so fast! It seems you have produced yet another example of fine art, art that...
Hello Dimitry, I rather liked David Brin.... "The Postman" was set in Oregon and I thought that was where David Brin lived but not according to a recent email...
Madrid, January 2, 2005 Hello, Raymond. You have asked me about SF authors using Teilhard's concepts. Well, Julian May uses a little bit, superficially, in...
Hi everyone, I've just been able to get back to my email after the University of Richmond's servers were down on the 29th for updating, etc., and then I had...
Raymond, Dimitry, Beatrix and all, This discussion of SF brings to mind the CBS 60 minutes report on Google Sunday night. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
Is it okay - or not okay - to tinker with the genetic composition of a human person? On the pretext of finding cures for a whole array of diseases, is stem...
Of course it's OK. It must be! We, human beings, are ethically obliged, forced, to do our best. Always. And that includes, logically, all the investigation we...
My own thinking tends to lean towards Dimitry's. Once something has been learned, there is no unlearning of it, so asking if it's "OK" is moot -- it just IS....
What kind of stem cells? One's own adult fat cells, or the cells of an unwilling victim: an unborn baby whose only fault was it was only a few cells old and...
... Let's hope one day we can kiss goodbye Behavioral Psychologists, until then, we must try our best to encourage and support individuals in desperate need of...
Hello everyone, In a message (DNA, Stem Cells, and Superlife) dated January 7, ... What Lovell is talking about here, as he proposes what appears to me to be...
The more I read about stem cell research, etc., on this list, the more I wonder what people really understand about stem cells and stem cell research. One of...
Hello Everyone, Allow me to share this referenced info: To explore potential medical uses of stem cells, scientists need stem cell lines. These lines are...
I can't be more agree with Brian. His examples of ethically acceptable and ethically non appropiate examples of human genetic engineering are pretty good...
In a message dated 1/10/2005 5:07:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, lcnatabio@... writes: Likewise, a person nursing an AIDS virus or undergoing chemotherapy...
Brian wrote Some two centuries ago a number of devout Christians held that ... At least make it hurt less. Children are required to get over 20 shots before...
Lovell wrote "The misconception of growing meat from stem cells, while possible, is actually not necessary in the treatment of diseases." There's no...
... It seems to me that this whole affair has gone to far and is hardly in the spirit of the list. We can disagree with one another, we can disagree...
Hello Liz and all, Thanks for the comments in your post of January 10, 2005 at 1:04:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. Yes, I am all for making vaccinations as...
... in ... of ... the ... Alec, your observation is very useful. In the flesh it is that sticks and stones may break our bones! In such a situation a direct...
Hello everyone, A word of thanks to Roberta for her reminder (in a post of January 10th) of the importance, to us on this list, of having at least a...
Hello everyone, Just noticed an error in the seventh paragraph of my earlier post entitled 'Stem Cells". This error got past me despite my checking and double...
Alec, Threats and insults were not my forte either. That is why I told Mary to stick with the issues and concerns that were raised. If we wanted not to bring...
Judy, Thank you for your insights about suffering and its redeeming value. I must point out however that you might have misunderstood the context of my post. I...
... So do I Judy, and so did Teilhard :-) . As he reminds us in the last sentence of the final page (p. 226) of the Appendix: "Some Comments on the Place and...
PBS Nova has done an investigation of the Piltdown "Hoax" Possible perpetrators of hoax were: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories ...
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