Why theology keeps disease alive
Read the whole page and then, if you want, the whole article. They can help people from going blind and can reverse paralysis in sheep with spina bifida and regenerate the blood system and immune system. It's sad that so many lives will be ruined or lost because his work will not be funded. He's done those amazing things and has the ability to do it for humans, not 20 years from now, but right now. It's not taking cells from a heart-beating baby still in the womb. It's from an embryo that doesn't have any organs, brain, nervous system, skin, or real tissue yet, just a bunch of divided cells(if I understood the article) that haven't formed into anything other than a bunch of cells looking like a blackberry; not a baby. It's a sad thing that people will not understand what the process really is and condemn it without knowing what they are condemning. Maybe one day the human species will get over itself and stop letting people go blind, deaf, be paralyzed, have diabetes, have AIDS, or crippled due to amputation because of pre-scientific theology.
You're launching the future of medicine, but it is still on hold.
Rather than curing disease, we're trying to get around theological problems. It's not what I signed up for in medical school. I can't tell you how many times I've thrown my hands up and said, "Enough, I can't take it anymore," but then I'm back the next day. We're crippled, but they can't stop us forever. We've now got enough irons in the fire and hopefully ways to bypass many of these objections. But it's just a shame that the research has been held up so long. We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, "They used to cut people's legs off." Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved. If I were a patient and I knew I was going to have my leg cut off and something could be done, I would be demanding it. But most people, even most scientists, don't realize what we're capable of. I realize it because I'm doing the work and I can see what's possible before my eyes.
