General Chat

I'd die Eldrick..........it is after all part of life is it not ?

I admire your philosophy - I think I feel the same way, but I wouldn't like to nail my colours to the mast just yet....lol

And after all.....if the stuff that has been force fed to us from childhood about afterlife and all that mullarkey is true...there is no reason to fear death....

Can of worms fully opened now I think!

ooh interesting dilemma

i do not like the idea of genetic engineering but i can not pretend i know much about it and therefor this is in no way an informed view lol

as for God and the bible....for those who believe.....God made man...he also gave man a brain to come up with some absolutely fantastic ideas & inventions...(and some terrible ones too if you ever watch dragons den or Americas best inventor lol)

he also provided man with free will to choose and beliefs and ethics to help him make the choices

i believe that caution should be shown as with all inventions etc, but that does not mean dismissing everything out of hand because it is not in the bible.....otherwise we would be walking everywhere, have no internet to chat on, women and children would be the property of their husbands and i may have a camel in me back yard instead of a mountain bike

GENETIC ENGINEERING
has been around us all our live i.e human/animal natural selection /cross breeding /interrace relations the natural way.
The problem to me is when the human being interfeirs.
People ask is it a good or bad thing to create a genetically engineered organism You could say what happens when disease kills out crops and scientist re introduce foriegn DNA into a crop to make it resilient against the desease so we dont run out of ceral foods. Shoud we take DNA from one sorce and intoduce it into anther to create bigger cows so we can have more hambergers.
Do we really want to mess with this genetically engineered DNA
who knows where it will leed too.
A new bread of human with some common sence.

I believe in natures way.
I think we have interfered too much, and caused so many problems, with nature and humans.
If an animal is weak, it dies. That is natures way, and how animals evolve.
We never seem to learn by our mistakes.

i also believe in natures way and a comment on "what happens when disease kills out crops and scientist re introduce foreign DNA into a crop to make it resilient against the disease so we don't run out of cereal foods"

Despite the rich diversity of foods found all over the world, one third of its population does not have enough to eat.

People go hungry because much of arable land is used to grow feed grain for animals rather than people.

Currently farmed animals eat one-third of the world’s cereal production. In the industrialised world, two-thirds of the agricultural land produces cereals for animal feed.

If the cereal and crops were produced for direct human consumption and not to feed animals to be slaughtered and eaten the chances of there not being enough cereal foods would be so minimal the need for genetiacally engineered alternatives would not be necessary

*here ends the party political broadcast on behalf of the vegan society* lol sorry about that...started typing and couldn't stop haha

Yes, but then we would all be buying weetabix by the binliner full.....and one poor harvest and we'd all be pretty hungry, let me tell you!

And if we weren't meant to eat animals, why are they made of meat?

PPB on behalf of the British Butchers Society :-)

pmsl

Surf good idea that :) humans with sense

hello WC \oo/

SO NO ONE GOING TO DO THE NEXT FOUR YEARS
AND I DONT THINK GOD HAS ANYTHI NG TO DO WITH IT
IM SO FED UP,,,,,, CURE ME AND DO IT NOW

I'm more against genetic engineering than for it. I appreciate the argument about curing disease and illness and providing a better way of life for people in general. I don't see religion as a factor. For those who are religious, God gave us brains and skills and choices about how we develop them.

I'm very concerned about how far it will go in terms of people being able to make pre birth choices about their children and think we are meant to be imperfect.

However, I would be willing to accept almost anything that would cure the illnesses of those I care for who are currently suffering so I guess my ethics would fly out of the window....

UGGERS
STEMCELL
OHH HOW I WISH
NO ONE CAN EVEN REMOTLEY FEEL
LIKE I DO NOW
A YEAR SWOPPING HALF A PILLAND FEAR

I'm sure they can, Gwen. You're not the only one suffering with something.

With respect Dizzy.........stem cell research and Genetic Engineering arn't in the same category .

Genetic engineering is more about mixing up the DNA of things that couldn't possibly get mixed with out the interference of science.

It scares me to the core.........fidderling with the very fabric of life can only end in tears........I believe.

it would be fair to say that i cannot appreciate how you feel Dizzi but to say no one can is not true as i am sure there are many people in the same position as yourself

i agree with amanda whole heartedly

IM SORRYIM JUST FINDING ,I CANNOT EXPLIAN
MYSELF,,


I WOULD RATHER STEMCELL THAN
WIRES IN MY HEAD,,,,,,,,,,,
I WONT INTERUPT AGAIN

,,THE WORDS NOT THERE
I APOLOGISE

No need to apologise Dizzy...........I hope so very much that medical science can come up with something that helps your situation and others.

Not all science is bad.

Amanda xx

oh Dizzi...interrupt away, it is good to get views form all sorts of people in different situations

thats how we learn new things

Well I was against it until my daughter was diagnosed. When you have a personal interest in the possibility of a cure being found your ethics usually are open to compromise.