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It's not the case. Bush and other members of the government (i.e. Ashcroft) are being highly criticized for letting their policy be heavily influenced by religious ideals. And last time I checked, a majority of scientists supported cloning... even here on scienceforums Should the ideals of the minority be applied to the majority?

The Pope is not a valid scientific advisor. He's the one who Bush asked what to do about cloning.

Ethics is subjective. To me, there's nothing unethical about it. The question is, should the government impose its ethics on science, provided that the process is no more dangerous than currently used artificial reproduction techniques?

The better IQ tests are already designed for the culture of the person being tested. The better tests do not vary much over time (reliability, a key criteria in intelligence tests).

Machines. And of course if there was a sufficient demand for a job that can't be done by machines (yet), the salary incentive would go up and smart people who cared about money would do it.

Nothing is impossible; we just haven't figured out how to do it yet. 10000 years ago even the most enlightened scholars would have said travelling to the moon would never be possible.

Well if he didn't other things like the pyramids were used to make water...

Gravity due to spin (centrifugal force) is actually a real force, but it's certainly not the only force that exists like he claimed. And it doesn't account for crop circles, which one of the most stupid claims he made while here.

We also have the power to perfect the process and use the knowledge it gives us to pre-emptively check and repair DNA and eliminate naturally occuring defects.

Same thing we do with all the naturally occuring messups.

That question is not related to cloning. People give birth naturally to deformed and retarded children. We do everything in our power to keep them alive, and the question if we should be doing so is the same for clones and natural births.

Which should be 0 for a photon

Yeah because of the FOIA.

By the time we figured out how to do that, we'd know better

better than someone who says "oooooooooohhhhh ketcup!!!!" and squirts it all over the place

Ah but P=mv

The warp in space-time approaches infinity as you approach the center of density; like an asymtote on a graph.

Light waves follow a straight path; locally it's straight, but to an observer its actually warped. The shortest distance from one point to another is not always a straight line. In order for a wave to compensate for a curvature in spacetime, it would have to change course, that simply doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Good, that will keep driving us towards a smarter world.

James Watson, who elucidated the structure of DNA 50 years ago with Francis Crick, has published an opinion advocating the use of gene therapy to eliminate stupidity. This has generated sharp criticism relating to the technological as well as ethical feasability. To date, we do not know enough about the myriad of genes that affect intelligence, and there is also a great amount of environmental factors. Even if we did, people argue improving intelligence by genetic manipulation is not ethically acceptable. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993451 Personally I would love to see this happen. We'd be alot better off if everyone was smarter. Nature gave us the intelligence to unlock its secrets and alter them. It seems hypocritical to propose eliminating disease by gene therapy, but not to go one step further and improve things.

Just what is you you want me to say? There are neutrino detectors. It's a fact. If you say there's no such thing, you are wrong. It's not a question of opinion, it's a question of fact. Òè ðàìî ðàçãîâîð in Áúëãàðèí , òî óæ áúäà ïîâå÷å ëåñåí êúì ðàçáèðàì.

Ok see i'm not a philosopher expressing different opinions, i am a scientist stating a fact. it is a FACT that we have anti-matter storage, it is a FACT that we can detect neutrinos.

We are already able to detect neutrinos. We also have an idea of their mass. And maybe you should use a translator, it is better than now.

Thats because gravity warps space-time; mass is not required.

You still haven't answered my main point. Why identical twins aren't wrong just because it's natural.