Mad Science: It's Not Just A Movie Thing Any More….

Finding new and improved ways to create and destroy human embryos - only now they are deliberately trying to create human/animal hybrids for the express purpose of destroying them for research and organ harvesting.

"One of the concerns that a lot of people have is that there's something sacrosanct about what it means to be human expressed in our DNA," says Jason Robert, a bioethicist at Arizona State University. "And that by inserting that into other animals and giving those other animals potentially some of the capacities of humans that this could be a kind of violation — a kind of, maybe, even a playing God."

It IS playing God, and it is an attack on the image of God. The Bible is clear that bestiality is prohibited: Exodus 22:19, Leviticus 18:23, Leviticus 20:15-16, Deuteronomy 27:21. While this procedure doesn't involve sexual relations with animals, the end result is the same: the creation of a human/animal hybrid, created for the purpose of being studied, harvested, and destroyed. This isn't just about transplanting a human organ into an animal, it is about transplanting human stem cells (made from human skin cells, not aborted babies) into an animal with the HOPE that a particular human organ will result, but knowing that they have no way to control what actually happens:

"The uncertainty is part of what makes the work so controversial. Ross and other scientists conducting these experiments can't know exactly where the human stem cells will go. Ross hopes they'll only grow a human pancreas. But they could go elsewhere, such as to the brain.

"If you have pigs with partly human brains you would have animals that might actually have consciousness like a human," Newman says. "It might have human-type needs. We don't really know."

"That possibility raises new questions about the morality of using the animals for experimentation. Another concern is that the stem cells could form human sperm and human eggs in the chimeras.

"If a male chimeric pig mated with a female chimeric pig, the result could be a human fetus developing in the uterus of that female chimera," Newman says. Another possibility is the animals could give birth to some kind of part-human, part-pig creature."

This is the kind of stuff of which mad scientists down through the years have dreamed. While the National Institutes of Health have banned funding this research until they can find a way to ethically be good with it, the US Defense Department IS helping fund it. Our tax dollars are being used to create human/animal hybrids.

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