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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (7198)4/5/2002 5:11:54 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Technology for the most part is a Western Culture idea, at least since the industrial revolution. These all fall into the categories of new refinements to old ideas. The issue with stem cells is change because it goes to the heart of what is Western Culture which ultimately gets down to a story of "progress" from Roman legions, through Roman Catholisism, to current christianity. The whole precept that we must study western culture falls apart when it is looked at as change and not necessarily progress. Personally I think much greater mythology was lost with the abandonment of the Norse Sagas than was gained with the bible. Religion is not all there is to Western Culture, but the stem cell issue is illustriative of the way that change is graded good or bad depending upon how well it fits some arbitrary paradigm.
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