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This doesn't do anything. That article is from 2005. How is a three year old article supposed to make me abandon my criticism against a position the Vatican adopted in 2008?

This is to this day officially accepted for further research by the Vatican. It has never seen it's endorsement retracted.
CBHD: Production of Pluripotent Stem Cells by Oocyte Assisted Reprogramming
If you have information about this that I do not have, I would welcome you to share it with me.

Now you're moving the goal posts. First you said the Catholic position was against mixing animal and human DNA. That wouldn't explain opposition to inserting human DNA into a cow cell from which the cow DNA has been removed. So now it's changed to mixing any human and animal issue.

I believed we were discussing mixing the DNA in regards to creating embryos, not other uses in medicine. Few in the modern world are against doing this for vaccines for example.

his referred to putting DNA from a human skin cell into a cow egg. And you know that that will always result in viable human embryo? You must be on your way to a Nobel prize then. Care to give us some greater insight into this breakthrough discovery?

I never said that.

That is the only bit I found at least partly persuasive in your post. It doesn't take away the words of bishop Gianfranco Girotti condemning genetic manipulation without reservation.

I'm sure you are aware that this is a media created event? Since when are Vatican pronouncements issued by archbishops in an interview about confession? Essentially, the media latched onto the thoughts of one man during a convention of clergy where the purpose was confession. The media's behavior reminds me of this joke. Sensationalism sells.

What is the Vatican's take on this? You can read it here.

Essentially, I believe you to be a free thinker. I have shown you that there is reason to doubt that the Vatican is against all genetic manipulation. I wonder why the blanket statement against drug use isn't equally attacked by the medical industry? From the comments made by this archbishop, one could easily infer that any medical use of drugs is a deadly sin. Yet......no one has jumped on that part at all. Why do you believe this is the case? There is little difference between the two after all. He did not calrify EXACTLY what was bad drug use and what was good drug use. We must infer that any and all use of drugs must be stopped. Do you see the parallel?

Seek truth, make up your own mind. Don't base your opinion on media sensationalism and Dawkins.net style misinformation, but on facts. If you want to know what Catholics think about genetics, talk to catholics, read their material, not what others tell you they think.

I'm not Catholic. I do not follow the Pope. I would not personally be involved in embryonic stem cell research even if the mass of Religious leaders came out in favor of it. I would not be involved in the creation of cybrid embryos either. That is my official position. You do what your morals and sense of right and wrong tell you to do in this regard. Don't expect my support in that decision financially or emotionally. Don't expect me to condemn you for it either.

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