Re: Theos-World British MPs back animal-human embryo research
Oct 27, 2008 05:31 PM
by Cass Silva
Saltation - ah a new word to describe a theory that is now being rejected but was once accepted as the holy grail - evolution posited no sudden changes - it required billions of years - and now as they cannot explain unknown species they create a lazarian concept - they keep changing the script as they go along without a 'perhaps we got it wrong'!
Cass
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From: Martin <Mvandertak@yahoo.com>
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 24 October, 2008 9:32:09 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World British MPs back animal-human embryo research
Here you go dr. Cass:
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Saltation_(biology)
Also check out this thread on Godlike productions and the fear solving message in the daily Telegraph:
In biology, saltation (from Latin, saltus, "leap") is a sudden change
from one generation to the next, that is large, or very large, in
comparison with the usual variation of an organism. The term is used
for occasionally hypothesized, nongradual changes (especially
single-step speciation) that are atypical of, or violate, standard
concepts involved in neo-Darwinian evolution. The unorthodox emphasis
on saltation as a means of evolutionary change is called saltationism.
In popular culture, a form of saltation appears to have emerged from
misconceptions over currently accepted theories of evolution (the X-men
and its various spin-offs being the most egregious examples).
http://www.godlikep roductions. com/forum1/ message642185/ pg1
http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/earth/ main.jhtml? view=DETAILS& grid=&xml= /earth/2008/ 10/22/scimind122 .xml
--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo. com> wrote:
From: Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo. com>
Subject: Re: Theos-World British MPs back animal-human embryo research
To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 5:51 AM
Also it will prove that we are the ancestors of the apes and not the other way around - can you expand on the heliosphere
Cass
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From: Martin <Mvandertak@ yahoo. com>
To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Thursday, 23 October, 2008 7:03:37 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World British MPs back animal-human embryo research
I wonder if the Solar Lords will dig this, they didn't in Atlantis...the sun is btw very quiet at the moment and its heliosphere has shrunk more than 25% the last 25 years...this could mean part destruction of this earth by cosmic fire.
--- On Thu, 10/23/08, nhcareyta <nhcareyta@yahoo. com.au> wrote:
From: nhcareyta <nhcareyta@yahoo. com.au>
Subject: Theos-World British MPs back animal-human embryo research
To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 4:49 AM
Britain's lower house of parliament has approved legislation allowing
scientists to create animal-human embryos for medical research, in
the biggest shake-up of embryology laws in two decades.
Despite opposition from religious and pro-life groups, MPs in the
House of Commons today backed the Human Embryology and Fertilisation
Bill by 355 votes to 129.
It will now go to a vote in the House of Lords, and could be law by
November.
The wide-ranging bill, which has been debated for months, would also
allow "saviour siblings" - children created as a close genetic match
for a sick brother or sister so their genetic material can help treat
them.
In addition, it gives lesbians and single women easier access to in-
vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment by removing requirements for
clinics to consider a child's need for a father.
Health Minister Dawn Primarolo told MPs the bill was about helping
the one in seven couples who needed fertility assistance, and about
research to deal with diseases such as Alzheimer's, which affects
350,000 Britons.
Hybrid embryos, created by inserting the nuclei of a human cell into
an animal egg, can ensure a more plentiful supply of stem cells for
use in research into treating conditions like Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's.
"It is about research to deal with the dreadful diseases and the
debilitating attacks on their health from which many in our society
suffer," the minister told MPs.
"The bill is about combining science with an ethical framework that
works on behalf of humankind."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a strong defender of the measures,
saying Britain owes it to future generations. His son Fraser has
cystic fibrosis, a disease that could one day benefit from embryo
research.
However, 16 MPs from his ruling Labour party, including former
minister Ruth Kelly, a staunch Catholic who quit the government this
month, voted against the bill and religious groups warned it was the
next step on a "slippery slope".
Nadine Dorries, a member of the opposition Conservative Party, told
her fellow MPs that loopholes in the legislation raised the
possibility of scientists attempting cross-breeding between humans
and animals.
"Of all the experimental possibilities debated in the course of this
bill, surely none is quite so utterly repulsive as the possibility of
seeking to inseminate animals with human sperm," she said.
The debate was overshadowed by complaints from all sides that the
government had blocked a discussion on reforming the abortion laws.
Ministers suggested they did not think the current bill was the right
time to do this.
-AFP
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