Hi everyone,

It's been very interesting reading all of this. I advocated us dropping this yesterday, but since the topic is here, it might as well be played with.

One of the things I'm noticing in everyone's share is a circling around the issues concerning the ethicality of cloning with stem cells and the issue's place within in an educational context. I have about 4 years experience as a science museum educator so I feel I can contribute to
this debate.

I would advocate, for those of you in a science institution, an exploration of Katherine's second point - can science be completely unbiased? Clifford Geertz stated that humans are suspended in webs of their own significance - what would an exhibit look like that explored cultural
reactions to scientific exploration in the past century in western culture as well as the science community's culture around that exploration? In short - what do those webs look like that we spin around ourselves to make peace with our actions?

Some of the questions could be: How did the science community support it's work ethically and morally? What were the arguments for and against? Did they prove to be true, false, beneficial, harmful? What were the long and short term consequences? In short - what can we learn from
those experiences as scientists, policy makers, educators and citizens?

Just a suggestion.

Cecelia Ottenweller

Katherine Cooper wrote:

> After all of this discussion about how science is completely separate
> from religion I think some thing have been neglected.
>
> 1. Someone referred to one of the early fathers of medicine-he was
> not separated from his religion. Think about all the great names of
> science that have been intensely involved in their religion. Newton,
> Hippocrates, Galileo.
>
> 2. I think the issue is whether science can be completely unbiased.
> Since everything a human does is affected by the constructs in his
> life then nothing can be completely unbiased.
>
> Just some thoughts.
> Cheers,
> Katherine Cooper
>
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