This story really reads like B-movie lunacy. Cybrids, chimeras and Mad scientists oh my.
Scientists are fertilizing animal eggs with human sperm and planting human nuclei into animal cells pretty much for giggles. They pretty much have no idea what they’re looking for as far as I can see but figure if they mess around enough they’re going to figure out something earth shattering.
Scientists in the UK have created at least 150 animal/human hybrids. But don’t worry. It’s all so they can come up with cures and you don’t have to worry because they’re killing them just a few weeks into their lives.
Yup. That’s supposed to make us all feel better.
The Daily Mail reports:
Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories.
The hybrids have been produced secretively over the past three years by researchers looking into possible cures for a wide range of diseases.
The revelation comes just a day after a committee of scientists warned of a nightmare ‘Planet of the Apes’ scenario in which work on human-animal creations goes too far.
The 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act made this all legit.
You gotta’ love how these scientists just hold out the hope of some possible future cure of an undetermined disease as license to create and kill at will.
And we can be rightly outraged but this is just the logical extension of the complete devaluing of life in our culture. Why would be OK to kill an embryo but not turn it into a half platypus before killing it. I can’t think of a logical argument that allows the former while prohibiting the latter.
We must cling to a radical love and respect for individual life or prepare for a reckless future ruled by mad scientists promising us great cures if only they’re allowed to take one little step further.
So be prepared for a B-movie future where the mad scientist creates monsters. But normally those movies start with the monster escaping the lab. In reality, the monsters are in the lab.
July 25, 2011 at 3:43 am
Just another example of how man is trying to make himself a god.
July 25, 2011 at 3:44 am
I don't really have words in reaction to this. Just incredulous.
July 25, 2011 at 3:47 am
Don't forget that this is all perfectly legal and being done over here in the good old USA as well. Back in 2009 scientists in CA published a report on the Reprogramming of Human Somatic Cells Using Human and Animal Oocytes in which they created human/mouse, human/rabbit and human/bovine embryos. God only knows how many other labs are doing this horrifying experimentation here and not reporting on it…yet.
July 25, 2011 at 4:21 am
The desecration of the human person ought to have ended with homicide, with the scraping of the human soul from its place of nurturing within in the womb. The violation of the sacred manhood of the human being continues the rebellion against God, as nature is being manipulated by arrogant men and liars, calling it science. Within nature, these abominations cannot occur of themselves. In Holy Scripture, when a man has intercourse with an animal, both the man and the animal were to be put to death, to keep evil from the midst of the community.
The soul of man is created by our Creator and endowed with free will. The soul of man is the seat of wisdom, intellect, and sovereign personhood. The animal has no such soul. The species, homo sapiens crossed with an animal species are transcendent hybrids. When two become one, a newly begotten immortal soul is created by God for the new one. An individual substance of a rational nature, a human being, is given an immortal soul. Thomas Aquinas says that the immortal human soul pervades every cell in the human being’s body. Therefore, the scientists are scandalizing an immortal soul by causing the soul of human beings to develop within the beast’s body. Degradation worse than being eaten by an animal, is for a human being, being given life as an animal.
The diabolic production of chimeras annihilates the homo sapiens as a species. The immortal soul of the manipulated human being is not asked for his consent, his informed consent which will take eighteen years after his birth into the world for him to develop INFORMED CONSENT. Without Informed consent, the scientists have invented a new holocaust for the human race.
Mary De Voe
July 25, 2011 at 4:23 am
Genetic slaves, anyone?
July 25, 2011 at 4:29 am
On second thought, two never become one when one is a man and the other is a beast. The man has a an immortal soul that continues to live in the body of a beast. The man was never given a choice.
July 25, 2011 at 6:28 am
Time to move to Greenland, or Baffin Island – far away from the lands that permit these kinds of atrocities and in due time might produce unstoppable lethal viruses. Unstoppable, that is, by human intervention. Only the death of an entire population will likely end any such pestilence.
July 25, 2011 at 10:46 am
Baffin Island is part of Canada and thus abortion is legal there as is "gay" marriage.
July 25, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Dr. Mendeleev is alive and well. I guess this has to be ranked as the ultimate human depravity.
Another sign of Britian's spiral into moral oblivian. Perhaps Sharia would be a blessing for the Brits. Are we far behind!!!
July 25, 2011 at 2:24 pm
they have been advertising this on television in Canada for some time. Half human half cow …no bull. (they also say it is away around stem cell research since the stem cells are from cows …well actually they are as much from human so it is a weeee bit ingenuous)
I guess they think everyone is stupid
July 25, 2011 at 2:31 pm
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit…it's the only way to be sure."
Seriously, I often wonder what holds back the hand of God. His anger must be…terrible indeed.
July 25, 2011 at 2:59 pm
This story sounds suspicious. I'm not convinced yet, but will look into it.
But if it is true, I could imagine some very fascinating research. For example, AIDS research involving cat-human hybrids.
Also, some research may be justified for its own sake. Maybe we are simply curious about what will happen.
July 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm
"So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors." Matthew 24:33
How long Oh Lord?
July 25, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Matt, You nailed it! "You gotta' love how these scientists just hold out the hope of some possible future cure of an undetermined disease as license to create and kill at will.
Just because you can do something does not mean you should. There is an old story in Spanish about some boys drowning their dog to see how it would die. Is this any better?
Please, Lord, reawaken in us the sense of natural law You gave us.
July 25, 2011 at 5:07 pm
I can't help thinking of Babylon, Egypt, etc. and the chimeras they worshipped. The ancient pagan world was replete with half-this, half-that creatures: the satyr, the Sphinx, the centaur, the griffin, the mermaid (the Starbucks double-tailed mermaid was a Babylonian fertility goddess). I really think they're trying to resurrect the ancient pagan world.
July 25, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Hey I tried to post this link on my facebook page and they wouldn't let me! A friend of mine tried it as well. We think you might be blocked/censored by them? Someone else give it a shot- hopefully I'm wrong! – Fr. Isidore Bard
July 25, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Now is the time for the Antichrist to be born.
Now is the time for that beast to be born.
Now is the time for Satan spirit to incarnate himself in this kind of beast,because he failed from doing so when Jesus came instead and destroyed him in his first attempt,on the cross.
July 25, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Um…
Huh?
Now is the time for…WHAT? How about prayer, fasting and love of God.
July 25, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Anyone who's ever read or watched any science fiction HAS TO KNOW– this can't end well.
July 25, 2011 at 11:04 pm
God creates man with human dignity, sovereign personhood and free will in virginity, innocence and immortality. Our Creator endows the human being with Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Genetic engineers have interjected a man’s gene into the salmon fish making cannibals of us all, and a brazil nut gene into the tomato causing nut allergies to flare in the afflicted. The genetic engineers have accomplished splicing genes and cloning men. Now, they have turned their evil machinations towards creating chimeras, crossing the immortal species of homo sapiens with beasts of the field.
All these machinations are done without the free will consent of the person upon whom the engineering is practiced. It cannot be called science because it directly contravenes nature. It is a violation of the human person. Genetic manipulation to produce a human –animal, a chimera, results in a tragedy for all, especially if the human-animals’ genes enter the gene pool and begin to assert themselves in the population by reproducing with our children. It will be unstoppable and the horror of our grandchildren being only half human and then half goat or sheep will be upon us. The Island of Dr. Moreau and Frankenstein will be upon us. The Department of Defense’ efforts to produce a “super-soldier" though gene manipulation will have brought forth hideousness without humanity. I do not have to die and go to hell for hell has reached up and seized me.
@Paul Rimmer: There is a man called the Berlin Patient who carries an immunity to AIDS. God will provide for His own, Divine Providence, without man slowing HIM down through sacrilege.
Mary DeVoe