From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 18:44:04 MDT
At 05:59 PM 8/14/01 +0200, 'gene fwd'd:
>http://www.news24.co.za/News24/World/Asia/0,1113,2-10-20_1065215,00.html
>Asia rejects clone nightmare
>According to Antinori, the nucleus of a woman's body cell is
>transferred into one of her eggs
My impression is that he plans to transfer a *man's* somatic cell nucleus.
>Buddhists believe in reincarnation and according to the Hong Kong
>Buddhist Association life starts when the soul reaches the body.
This is an aspect we need to look out for, since so many people throughout
the world ardently believe in this strange idea. It's precisely the
essentialist plug-and-play version of `soul' that sophisticated
Christianity has largely abandoned.
>adding that the nuns and monks found the concept of
>"human duplication" so incomprehensible that they did not want to talk
>about it.
If only.
But they will, I'll bet. Talk and talk and talk, expressing disgust at this
thing they admit they find `so incomprehensible', and then ban it anyway.
Hey, hey, waddya wanna ban today!
Damien Broderick
[ObPiety: still very concerned, however, about the *near-term* risks of
using incompletely understood technology to make human babies at the risk
of creating damaged people]
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