Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Chimeras - A Serious Look
I made a lame joke a couple of weeks ago about recent investigation into putting human brain cells into monkeys. Evangelical Outpost is taking a serious look with two posts -- here and here.
In his concluding paragrpah, Joe offers the most stunning arguement against the "humans and animals are the same" nonesense I have ever read.
In his concluding paragrpah, Joe offers the most stunning arguement against the "humans and animals are the same" nonesense I have ever read.
If it is considered morally acceptable to experiment on monkeys then why should we not also experiment on human infants? If all animals are equal and some animals (i.e., a 3-year old ape) are more equal than others (i.e., a 3-day old human) then the definition of ?animal experimentation? could be broadly expanded. And this is where the true danger lies. In a Christian worldview our biggest concern would be for the care and dignity of using primates for research. Under the secular (Singerian?) worldview we must safeguard against experimenting on our own children.People who argue for radical equality in any field disregard that such efforts do not raise up the lowly without also knocking down the high. I, for one, do not wish to give up my perch high atop creation.
