GOD Posts List

God related posts

The following list of 23 posts has the post number, date, and approximate title of posts with something pertinent to the GOD page of   evolutioninsights.blogspot.com/   Other posts on creativity or science may also be of interest.  If you accept my view that God is the Creator of the world and its principles, such as evolution, then all 104 prior posts should be of interest.

1          5/9/2013          My Evolution Blog

5          5/21/2013        GOD

10        6/8/2013          God and His People

12        6/12/2013        Darwin and God

28        10/22/2013      Evolution and Morality

29        10/27/2013      Evolution and Stem Cell Morality

32        12/18/2013      God and MLK

40        3/12/2014        Evolution Insights: Preface

41        4/3/2014          Evolution and Marriage

42        4/12/2014        God, Science, and the Media

47        5/4/2014          Psychoanalysis of a blogger

49        5/13/2014        Hello World

50        5/17/2014        Finding God

60        6/30/2014        God: Lectio Divina

61        7/25/2014        Evolution: Intelligence and Creativity

66        9/15/2014        Evolution and the error of irreducible complexity

69        10/4/2014        Evolution, Science, and Extraterrestrial Life

71        10/11/2014      Habit, Creativity, Evolution, and God

74        10/31/2014      God, Evolution, and the Pope

76        11/17/2014      God: Women Priests?

81        12/27/2014      Konnersreuth and Teresa Neumann

83        1/19/2015        God and Religious Traditions

84        1/21/2015        Our Relationship with God

EVOLUTION AND STEM CELL MORALITY

STEM CELLS AND MORALITY

Some contend that experimentation with embryonic stem cells violates the commandment prohibiting killing since the embryo destined to be an adult human being is destroyed in the process.  There is some support from evolutionary theory that it is also bad or wasteful science.  Experience in stem cell research also shows that embryonic stem cells have only the slimmest of chances of effecting cures whereas adult stem cells have produced a considerable number of successes.

The evolutionary process whereby organisms were produced involved many developmental steps prior to the adult stem cell production.  Those steps may have been modified in different ways in different species over time.  The same thing may be said for the process of producing the adult organ from the adult stem cell.  But the adult stem cell is programmed to do the right thing in the right place.  The embryonic stem cell is programmed to do everything, but it has been difficult to limit its development to just the job of one type of adult stem cells.  As a result, embryonic stem cell research for cures has mostly resulted in failures, many of which involved induction of tumors or cancers.  The failure is presumably due to the inability to turn off the potential of the embryonic cells in all directions but the desired one.

There is optimism in the recent discovery of methods to produce the equivalent of adult stem cells from some adult cells.  This can be potentially the best stem cell research line for the following reason.  The stem cells produced from this method could come from the individual needing treatment and as a result be free from the danger of rejection of non-compatible donor cells.

For the non-religious or those who have no objections on moral grounds, embryonic stem cell research should not be promoted or receive tax dollars because it is money wasted.  The value all research has for training new scientists and development methods is not unique to embryonic stem cell research and can as readily be had by doing adult stem cell research.

Joseph G. Engemann     October 27, 2013