Posted on 08/02/2007 11:24:10 AM PDT by BGHater
If you've been laughing at those Neanderthal presidential candidates who still don't believe in evolution, it's time to sober up. Every serious scientist knows we evolved from animals. The question now is whether to put our DNA and theirs back together.
We've been transplanting baboon hearts, pig valves and other animal parts into people for decades. We've derived stem cells by inserting human genomes into rabbit eggs. We've created mice that have human prostate glands. We've made sheep that have half-human livers. Last week, Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences reported that scientists have created "thousands of examples of transgenic animals" carrying human DNA. According to the report, "the introduction of human gene sequences into mouse cells in vitro is a technique now practiced in virtually every biomedical research institution across the world."
Why have we done this? To save lives. If you can't get a human heart valve, a pig valve will do. If you can't get human eggs to clone embryos for stem cell research, rabbit eggs will do. If you can't use people as guinea pigs in gruesome but necessary experiments on human tissue, guinea pigs will do. All you have to do is put -- or grow -- the human tissue in the guinea pigs. You're free to inflict any disease or drug on a human system, as long as that human system lives in an animal.
In stem cell research, moreover, human cells are the therapy. Under FDA rules, they must be tested in animals before they're tested in people. That means implanting them to see how they change the animals. Meanwhile, we're using hamster cells to make a human protein to treat anemia. We're using mice to make humanized antibodies that produce cancer drugs. We've grown human kidney tissue in rats.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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“we evolved from animals”
How come they didn’t evolve and we still have animals?
Michael Moore ping?
For years now, most of the insulin, if not all of it, that diabetics inject themselves with, is derived from bacterium which has its DNA spliced with the specific human DNA segments involved in the production of human insulin.
Actually, we don’t know if we evolved from apes or if the apes evolved from us. Think about it. That would make us an evolutionary dead-end.
Who is claiming that?
That opening paragraph is some of the most insipid craporama that I have ever read.
APf
“If you can’t use people as guinea pigs in gruesome but necessary experiments on human tissue,”
Why not if we are basically animals? What’s wrong with a nice juicy william saletan steak? Medium rare, please.
I have a feeling he won’t be laughing.
Winner of the "question begging" award of the day.
I thought this was another article about that sheep-h*mper they caught last week...
I never understand the point of that question. Or was that a joke?
susie
“How come they didn’t evolve and we still have animals?”
The ancient, apelike ancestor creatures were NOT, and I can’t stress “NOT” ancestors of today’s modern apes. No. And they were NOT found with spear points because they were a food source for ancient humans. How dare you say that sir. How dare you!
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Sorry; I only use animal proteins after they’ve been grilled to perfection. Sometimes I’ll marinet them first. Although a dry rub is acceptable.
I thought this was about Rosie ODonnell’s parents having sex.
From Greek mythology - the Chimera (from Homer’s brief description in the Iliad) in the earliest literary reference: “a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire”.
These part-human abominations are the modern versions of these mythical creatures.
I forget where I read this story. There is some evidence that humans have mated with chimps who are not far from us in DNA terms. There was a case in Texas where an imported chimp baby walked on two legs and had a lot of human looking features. He was far more intelligent than other chimps yet retained their physical strength. He ended up working on a ranch caring for livestock. Unfortunately, he matured sexually at age six and tried to rape a woman. After that he was put into an animal shelter.
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