Eek!

[shipperx]

Okay, I have to agree with the Catholic Bishops on this one because this would freak me out.  I love science, but there are places where science should not go.

No.  A world of no. (The mammoth thing would be cool though.  What?  I can handle a little hypocrisy).

This is also freaky, but in a more cool kind of way.

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[sp23.livejournal.com]

Did we learn nothing from Jurassic Park? It comes back to the old argument - just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should. Oy.

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

Two minds with one thought posting at virtually the same time. LOL

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hee! That was the reaction I had the time I read that they were doing some collider experiment that would result in a singularity with "some similarities to a black hole." I kept thinking, you know this never turns out well in science fiction!

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah, the Hadron Collider. And how sad am I that I was kind of disappointed we weren't faced with annihilation? That we know of! LOL

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

The dark matter article was interesting, even if I couldn't understand a lot of it.
And I think a live woolly mammoth would also be a very interesting concept, but the Neanderthal? No, no, no. Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we SHOULD. In this case, we really should not.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I find the concept of cloning a sentient being whose world, culture and any and all possible companions ceased to exist thousands of years ago to be a truly, soulessly horrible idea to even contemplate.

But mammoths? Totally cool.

[cy-girl.livejournal.com]

Have none of these people read a Michael Chrichton book?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hee! I mean, really! (Although, I have to admit that my mind actually flew to this book (http://www.amazon.com/Hominids-Neanderthal-Parallax-Robert-Sawyer/dp/0765345005/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227674857&sr=8-3). I've never gotten around to reading it because it sounds like crack!fic. But I sort of want to read it because it sounds like crack!fic. >:)

[tnmisery.livejournal.com]

DEAR LORD, WHEN ARE THEY GONNA LISTEN TO THE FANGIRLS??!?!
We know what can come of this!

Clearly, Catholic Bishops? Fangirls. Uh-huh.

ohhh, dark side universe...cool.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Dark side of the universe -- cool.

Cloning sentient beings who culture and climate ceased to exist thousands of years ago -- ahoy! tragic sci-fi novel. I'm just sayin'

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

What I wanna know is where exactly "Catholic teachings" go against human cloning. I doubt they even knew about the concept when the rules were written (just to be contrary, mind you).

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

As someone on my friends list pointed out, it's somewhat amusing that they're protesting the cloning of a non-homosapien human, when by religion they aren't supposed to believe that non-homo sapien humans ever existed. (Albeit, it seems that the Catholic church is more willing to contemplate this than fundamentalist protestant ones).

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Point! Although I will admit, mad as I am at them, the Catholic church has never been the Fundamentalist "the Bible happened exactly as written!" sort - during JPII's time they acknowledged evolution, although not very loudly.

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

I am not much cloning of any kind when it comes to making a fully living thing. Not for religion though.
I am not religious.
It's just to risky health wise and what kinda of life can someone have like that ?

As for Wolly Mammoths well, I haven't heard yet that African Elephants aren't endangered any more. Maybe we should be focusing on animals haven't died quite so far in the past. Passenger pigeons, tasmanian wolves, even the Dodo. Or from the any number of numerous less known and much small animals that have gone extinct. I don't hear about the out cry of the Hawian crow who is totally extinct in the wild ?
Give me a happy wild population of Chinese River Dolphin, who are know extinct, with a clean habitat. Then I will think about a Wolly Mammoth.
Getting down from the soap box know.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

::points upward:: What she said.