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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | The bill when you read this headline is rather sensational and immediately you think, |
0:15.3 | well, this is a cause for concern. |
0:18.9 | Scientists create early embryos that are part human and part monkey. |
0:25.9 | And some research on this from one of our reasonable faith chapter directors who sent |
0:31.5 | us this and wanted us to take a look at it. |
0:34.5 | This is apparently a recent thing. |
0:38.0 | It's an attempt to form human organs for transplant. |
0:42.8 | And so in order to develop the need for human organs for transplant, scientists have successfully |
0:49.1 | implanted human stem cells in monkeys. |
0:53.8 | So why does this immediately kind of make us a little concerned when we read a headline |
0:58.8 | like that? |
0:59.8 | Well, I think that it just shows the absolute necessity of having ethical controls upon |
1:07.7 | scientific experimentation. |
1:10.7 | Not everything that scientists can do should be done. |
1:16.4 | Not everything is ethical. |
1:18.6 | And this idea of creating embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells is just frightening |
1:31.0 | to think that they would be attempting to create this sort of teratological hybrid that |
1:40.7 | they could then use to harvest organs from. |
1:45.2 | And Kevin, it's always done with such a noble purpose. |
1:49.6 | The noble purpose is always there. |
1:52.4 | We're going to save lives, we're going to advance medical science. |
1:57.5 | Wouldn't you want someone to get a liver transplant who desperately needed it? |
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