there's already stem cell lines available for study. bush is simply objected to opening any more for the time being since new lines aren't any more or less likely to provide results.
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Because these people often get into positions of power, and they tend to legislate against progress. See Bush's bioethics council, for instance.
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The darkages wasn't the darkages by how people died due to the church. the dark ages was a time of almost no sort of learning, economic depression, and civil unrest. The Catholic Church was the height of learning. The Church studied all sorts of science from astronomy to biology. The church is, particularly a priest (Gregor Mendel), responsible for discovering genetic inheritance which made the base for evolution. They also made many universities across europe to encourage learning and study.
Meanwhile in the East where there was a far better social/economic situation learning flourished under Islam. They people in India invented today's numbering system by Hindu monks. The Muslims in the middle east invented algebra out of those numbers and Christains in the west further advanced math by carving out Calculus
On top of all that they copied and wrote books. The church is also responsible for the archetecture found throughout europe that americans pay thousands of dollars to see in person. And the church provided a back bone throughout all of europe that stopped it from further degenerating.
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Tell this to those who died by the hands of the church  |
In short your views on religion are shallow, biased, and short sighted considering the history of religion and learning.
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