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To: MHGinTN
In the movie "The Man Who Faced Southeast" there is a scene where the scientist/doctor has the brain itself over the dissecting sink and is washing pieces of it down the drain. He asks various questions as each piece goes down. 'Is this the appreciation of art'? 'Is this love of family'? 'Is this the business entrepreneur'? There is some doubt that the brain is in fact the seat of the soul, although it is certainly part of the control system of the body, and not just through the nervous system but also through chemical systems. There is a lot of reference in poetry to 'heart and soul' and it might be that there is a closer correlation there than followers of the 'material man' believe. So we should think twice about cloning to produce organs for transplant if we have some uncertainty about these other questions. Do we know enough about what we want to do?
5 posted on 06/13/2003 10:52:31 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: RightWhale
Thank you for reading the essays, RW.

There are several points in the Bible (OT and NT) where reference is made to body, soul, and spirit. In a recent Catholic homily, the Priest refers to the soul wrapping the body, not the body wrapping the soul. This leads me to understand that it is the soul (and spirit) that is not locked in time and space, but the body clearly is.

I've attempted, with the entire series of essays, to approach the realities of the organism from a biological perspective, avoiding the religious aspects as best I can. The series is offered for folks already pro-life to one extent or another, in an effort to give substantial reason why current biological understandings underpin the pro-life position. In subsequent essays, the notions of legal positions (abortion laws, the Roe, Doe and Casey decision, embryonic stem cell proscriptions, cloning regulations) will also be addressed but the addresses of same underpinned with the biological realities.

7 posted on 06/13/2003 11:11:51 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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