PRO LIFE: Stuck on stupid!

Why does man, in light of his recorded history, feel the omnipresent need to play God?

Harvard starts human cloning work - BBC NEWS

Researchers from Harvard University have begun efforts to clone human embryos, defying hopes by President George W Bush for a US ban.

Harvard funds human cloning - Times Online

America's richest university threw its reputation and financial resources behind efforts to clone human embryos for medical science yesterday.

Scientists at Harvard University were awarded ethical approval and private funds to pursue therapeutic cloning experiments, which are strongly opposed by the Bush Administration and the Religious Right.

Harvard University has come a long way from its 1636 founding -

By all accounts the chief impetus was to allow the training of home-grown clergy so the Puritan colony would not need to rely on immigrating graduates of England's Oxford and Cambridge universities for well-educated pastors, "dreading," as a 1643 brochure put it, "to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches.

Harvard was also founded as a school to educate American Indians in order to train them as ministers among their tribes. Harvard's Charter of 1650 calls for "the education of the English and Indian youth of this Country in knowledge and godliness."

Oh for the good old days.

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