Now that cloning is back in the media again, the media is once again demonstrating their ignorance of the science, or blatant attempt to pull the wool over the public’s eyes about what is really being done in the lab. They either:
- Leave out the fact that what is produced is a human embryo (going straight from enucleated egg with the nucleus of an adult cell, directly to stem cells)
- Or they admit that an embryo is created, but claim it’s not a human being
- Or they deny that the embryo is a human clone (redefining human clone to refer to a cloned human who is allowed to be born.
They are leaving out important details, and redefining scientific words to fit their purposes. It’s all rhetoric and propaganda, and obfuscates the science and biology behind it.
For the last time: somatic cell nuclear transfer does not produce embryonic stem cells. It creates a human clone, and that human produces stem cells. To extract the stem cells, the human clone must be killed!
Wesley J. Smith has some nice posts demonstrating how the mainstream media continues to get it wrong:
- Let the Cloning Obfuscation Begin
- Cloning Obfuscation 2
- Human Cloning Obfuscation 3
- Human Cloning Obfuscation 4
Thinking to Believe 
May 17, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Jason:
The Riddle of Life:
The Chicken and the egg conundrum?
You are saying the Chicken comes first because stem cells can only come from a human being but isn’t it true that human beings can only form from stem cells and not the reverse without the conception apparatus of sperm and egg? Isn’t the human being and a stem cell the same as the chicken/egg riddle?
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May 17, 2013 at 1:56 pm
This isn’t a question of human origins Leo. This is a question of how embryonic stem cells are obtained. And there is no question that they are obtained from human embryos, and those embryos are killed in the process.
But no, human beings do not come from stem cells. Human beings come from the biological union of a sperm and egg, which are not equivlent to stem cells.
Jason
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May 17, 2013 at 8:39 pm
It’s not really a surprise, sad as it is.
The culture of death and triviality surrounding the value of human life in this country for the last 30 years has pretty much prepped the ignorant masses that what is being done here in the name of science is of no import. Enough to report on and herald, but not special enough to bother with truth.
In order for a stem cell to be viable, by default, it has to be alive (consider the etymology of viable: from French, vie, from Latin vita, i.e. life).
And, if it’s alive, then by the default, the animating principle must be present. That animating principle is the human spirit (i.e. the breath of life), given to each person by God (Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 12:7).
When spirit meets flesh, a soul is created (Genesis 2:7). When the spirit leaves flesh, the body dies (James 2:26), as evidenced by any part of the human body, if separated from the whole (e.g. DEAD skin cells after a shower, an amputation or dismemberment, etc.)
So, when the extraction occurs, death occurs, and thus, a valid human being with a soul, undeveloped and impersonal as it may appear to be, is murdered.
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May 17, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Excuse #2 sounds familiar. Abortion (er, “pro-choice”) lobbyists have already largely paved the way for its validity.
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