Are Scientists Playing God? It Depends on Your Religion, New York Times, 11/20/2007:
American and European researchers have made most of the progress so far in biotechnology. Yet they still face one very large obstacle — God, as defined by some Western religions.I corsivi sono miei. Chissà se la strada giusta potrebbe essere quella di convertire gli italiani al buddismo...
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Asia offers researchers new labs, fewer restrictions and a different view of divinity and the afterlife. In South Korea, when Hwang Woo Suk reported creating human embryonic stem cells through cloning, he did not apologize for offending religious taboos. He justified cloning by citing his Buddhist belief in recycling life through reincarnation.
When Dr. Hwang’s claim was exposed as a fraud, his research was supported by the head of South Korea’s largest Buddhist order, the Rev. Ji Kwan. The monk said research with embryos was in accord with Buddha’s precepts and urged Korean scientists not to be guided by Western ethics.
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Most of southern and eastern Asia displays relatively little opposition to either cloned embryonic stem-cell research or genetically modified crops. China, India, Singapore and other countries have enacted laws supporting embryo cloning for medical research (sometimes called therapeutic cloning, as opposed to reproductive cloning intended to recreate an entire human being). Genetically modified crops are grown in China, India and elsewhere.
In Europe, though, genetically modified crops are taboo. Cloning human embryos for research has been legally supported in England and several other countries, but it is banned in more than a dozen others, including France and Germany.
In North and South America, genetically altered crops are widely used. But embryo cloning for research has been banned in most countries, including Brazil, Canada and Mexico. It has not been banned nationally in the United States, but the research is ineligible for federal financing, and some states have outlawed it.
La mappa (Laws on Cloning) è stata realizzta da Lee M. Silver, professore di biologia molecolare a Princeton.
Ricordo una riflessione simile sull'espianto degli organi, in particolare riferito alla definizione di morte cerebrale.
RispondiEliminaSe non ricordo male (e potrei tranquillamente ricordare male) lì era il contrario: la visione buddista era di ostacolo al concetto che una persona possa essere morta pur anche se il suo cuore batte.
Ma la Spagna non era cattolicissima?
pare che sto periodo stiamo tutti a commentare cartine :D
RispondiEliminaMe la vedo brutta. Pensa per quanti secoli il cattolicesimo arenò l'astrofisica, ritardando notevolmente la comprensione che abbiamo dell'universo.
RispondiEliminami fa ammazzare il monaco ha esortato i ricercatori a non farsi guidare dall'etica occidentale :)))
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si, la Spagna è cattolicissima, ma ha anche un primo ministro k@zzuto, che rifiuta di presenziare alla messa del papa quando è in visita.