[quote]pookie wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
Skin cells, or “any” human cell does not have this potential. They have already differentiated into specific tissue types and are completely incapable of any self-directed progression into a complete human.
Dolly the sheep was cloned from an adult somatic cell taken from her breast (hence her name).
There’s no reason to think that the same process wouldn’t work on humans.
As for “self-directed”, who said anything about that? We were discussing potentials. Any adult cell, given the right process and technology, can be used to produce a distinct being. That it will not do it by itself is a given.
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[quote]pookie wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
I am very well of dolly the sheep. The same process could work, or something analogous to it. However, that is not the analogy you were attempting to make with your other post, and your analogy, at least in order to be applicable to the present topic, depends on the innate “self-directed” progression rather than technologically induced artificial potential.
Actually, it’s not an analogy I tried to make; this whole side-discussion started from a response I made to someone who was babbling about DNA being the same in the zygote as it is in the end individual; as if the simple fact of “having DNA” made a zygote the moral equivalent of an adult human being.
I would think you already understood the point and are simply taking the piss, but I’m not sure. I would honestly like to explain it, but I don’t have the patience at this time, and I have to go train now anyway.
I’m sure the explanation would be both enlightening and entertaining, but it’s got nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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The DNA in the zygote is the same as in the full grown human.
Stigma? Really? I honestly have no freaking clue what you’re talking about. There’s no attached stigma for birth control that I see anywhere around me, I never have actually, and I live in the bloody bible belt.
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