Scientists Grow Sperm and Eggs From Stem Cells

[Ridik876]

lol@ njalterio for his epic comment and lol@ anyone who thinks stems cell research equates to killing children. Am I killing 100,000 children every time I bust a nut in the shower? Death is inevitable - it invokes sadness. But who's going to be sad here? The 16-celled sphere? I guarantee you a swab of your inner cheek is more autonomous. People are only going to be made happy from this.

 

[Goro]

[citation][nom]ewood[/nom]the only fear i have of god is the fear of his followers.[/citation]

+10

 

[JonnyDough]

"and could lead to break-through fertility treatments for infertile couples."

OMG. Just what we need. People who can't have babies to have more babies! Humans don't hardly take care of the ones they have...but OMG we should make more!

 

[Guest]

When I first saw this article I thought this: "Wow, now I can shove it in all the females' face who told me that they don't need men, cause sperm can be artificially made (there have been studies about artificial sperm before, just not eggs)." Now I can say, hey guess what? We don't need WOMEN anymore, cause while you could only make more females, we can make both males AND females! Male>Female, and this is proof
P.S. It's hilarious to see the trolls... pulling 'fact' about simple observations and beleifs, and fighting about it.

 

[dkArchon]

As it stands right now, for the most part, only stupid people are breeding, those with intelligence and the foresight of the responsibilities of raising/paying for a child are far outnumbered by those who don't give a shit and their multitude of children who suffer for it. Here in the USA, you are basically rewarded for having more children especially if you can't afford them, you get more welfare, food stamps, tax cuts, free healthcare for the children, etc. Its completely ridiculous, and children are had more for being tools so their indigent parents don't even have to work.

 

[tester24]

"Now I can breed my race of atomic superman to play against the Harlem Globetrotters!"

 

[tester24]

[citation][nom]dkarchon[/nom]As it stands right now, for the most part, only stupid people are breeding, those with intelligence and the foresight of the responsibilities of raising/paying for a child are far outnumbered by those who don't give a shit and their multitude of children who suffer for it. Here in the USA, you are basically rewarded for having more children especially if you can't afford them, you get more welfare, food stamps, tax cuts, free healthcare for the children, etc. Its completely ridiculous, and children are had more for being tools so their indigent parents don't even have to work.[/citation]

I couldn't agree more

 

[bildo123]

It's the beginning of the Matrix! Dun Dun Dun.

Next we make skynet, which takes over humans which than takes over the baby factories, which then...well...game over man! Game Over!

 

[turboedge]

[citation][nom]dkarchon[/nom]As it stands right now, for the most part, only stupid people are breeding, those with intelligence and the foresight of the responsibilities of raising/paying for a child are far outnumbered by those who don't give a shit and their multitude of children who suffer for it. Here in the USA, you are basically rewarded for having more children especially if you can't afford them, you get more welfare, food stamps, tax cuts, free healthcare for the children, etc. Its completely ridiculous, and children are had more for being tools so their indigent parents don't even have to work.[/citation]
And then we end up with another generation of people, larger then the first, that believe the government should give them everything.

 

[tomrippity02]

[citation][nom]brendano257[/nom]I always wanted a tube baby =D No not really....Anyway, as for Genesis 1:31, the term 'good' actually in that situation meant perfect. The fact remains that 'good' was corrupted by evil (sin) which was not god's doing, hence he remains perfect even though we are corrupted (quite a bit I might add).[/citation]


I'd be interested in knowing the reasoning behind that? Is there some translation where "good" means "perfect" or do we know of there being a mistranslation in that verse? If not, thats just drawing conclusions based on nothing....

 

[dkArchon]

[citation][nom]turboedge[/nom]And then we end up with another generation of people, larger then the first, that believe the government should give them everything.[/citation]

Exactly, they were raised by parents who got nothing but handouts, and they will want the same. Laziness breeds more laziness, this is a real slippery slope we are on, and I don't see any real way to stop it that doesn't encroach upon peoples basic human rights. Its a conundrum, and it will get far far worse I fear.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]I wonder if they can create synthetic stool samples.[/citation]
Done ages ago. See http/www.cloaca.be/machines.htm

 

[Guest]

Great, now that super soldier program will progress more quickly.

 

[sylvia648]

[citation][nom]qowieury[/nom]They tell us that killing all these children is definitely worth the many cures it will provide, the lives of (important) people it will save.Now children are being killed in order to make an advance of our understanding so that someday children could be created.How is this not selfish? People who are so unwilling to adopt that they support the destruction of (thousands?) of children so that they can support the destruction of dozens of their own children so they can have that one perfect child.[/citation]


I smell religious craziness. For or against the death penalty? Probably for it like the rest of the right wingers, but against stem cell research and claim scientist are killing people (or as they like to try and tug on the heart strings of idiots saying they're killing "babies" because who is for killing nonetheless the killing of kids?). There is no way to deal with your comment other then to hit the negative button, but seriously it's a good thing for people that want to have kids of their own and cannot for whatever reason it may be. Go science!

 

[sylvia648]

[citation][nom]ikefu[/nom]People who argue that science makes religion irrelevant or that religion proves science flawed is an uneducated ignorant fool. They co-exists quite nicely if people would get off their high horses from both sides of the isle.I'm a Christian and believe that God created the Universe through the Big Bang and that he created the laws of Physics and Evolution as a tool to create humans. People need to step back and open their eyes, both Christians and atheist scientists. Science will never replace religion to answer the ultimate origin and meaning of life questions just as religion will never answer the specifics and methods of creation questions because they were never intended for those purposes.[/citation]



Its not possible to have religion and science be on equal terms. In the case of religion if they admit to being on equal footing with science then they have just admitted to being wrong for thousands of years and all their money goes down the toilet. On the case of science being on equal footing with religion is like saying Stephen Hawking were to say that the pope where on his level of thinking (because they're at the top of their fields). The Pope is a specialist of nonsense and idiocy that hurts millions of people by saying condoms are bad and and other idiotic crap that leads to millions more African's (as they have very very high numbers of people each year coming down with the aids virus) and others brainwashed across the world to fellow this crap and hurt themselves mentally and psychically (the mentally part is the stigma they beat into their followers heads for just being human and that everything is a sin... makes for some people with a lot of self doubt). As where Stephen Hawking helps the rest of us to understand the universe and things within it to better our universal understanding of things. I think its clear that there is no equal footing here.


P.S. Christian scientists? They are far and few between... if any.

 

[r0x0r]

[citation][nom]sylvia648[/nom]P.S. Christian scientists? They are far and few between... if any.[/citation]

I would presume they use the power of Science to provide a Christian ideal i.e. helping your fellow man.

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Science and religion are alike in the way that you can either use it to cause great harm and suffering or you can use it to provide a benefit to humankind. It's merely a tool with which to live our lives. Problems arise when religion or science become our lives.

It's like money. People say "money is the root of all evil", when in fact money is just a tool, an inanimate object, an idea (like, dare I say it, god). It's up to the persona of the wielder as to whether or not money is used for good or evil.

Also want to clarify on that last paragraph. I did say that god is an idea (i.e. a human invention). Would that make believing in god a fallacy? Well, what if someone uses a fallacy as a means of doing good for the world? (without pushing their belief of said fallacy onto others).

As far as I'm concerned, you can believe what you want, so long as it's not detrimental to anyone.

 

[eyemaster]

Everything is just a few years away. Heck, the cure for cancer has been just a few years away in for ever!

Claiming anything is just a few years away is futile. Mention what you're working on, publish the results when you're done. Otherwise, predictions are pointless.

 

[Icehearted]

I see this as the beginning of the end of sex as we know it. Remember Demolition Man? Yeah, Sandra Bullock was hot, but unwilling to actually do the "hunka chunka".

Now I has a sad.