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The promise of Stem Cell research, in particular Embryonic Stem Cell research to solve many intractable diseases and conditions that plague our modern world to new possibilities like regrowth of nerve fibre for back injury patients to regrowth of the whole missing leg or arm.  This is what the anti-science US President George W Bush opposed last week, maintaining his loyalty to the anti-science religious fundamentalist right that holds sway in Washington andTexas these days.

Living as I do in Australia I see from time to time faint echoes here in the antipodes of the insanity that pervades US society.  Fortunately cooler heads prevail and it remains a faint echoe.  It is as if the same club is represented in the evolution vs creation debate as the anti-stem cell push in Washington.  Fortunately for us, the Republican Party is not monolithic, for we have the much maligned Governor of California funding a program as a stop gap measure until the Legislature comes to it's senses.

The conflict between science and religion is an arificial construction of this group that has gone all the way up to the Whitehouse. Let's hope th e US survives such an onslaught.  It's technological superiority and nuclear supremouse is increasingly being eroded by world events, so why allow a bad start in these new sciences and applications coming from biology? 

There are a number of reasons why I haven't posted lately, however my domain registration reminded me to do so, so I may be able to add to my posts soon, possibly Sundays and Mondays.  TTFN

Today I posted the first link at the bottom of the page for the affiliate program with catlog.com.

USATODAY.com - http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/ … tion_x.htm: "Nearly one-third of science teachers who participated in a national survey say they feel pressured to include creationism-related ideas in the classroom. And an alarmed science establishment is striking back in defense of teaching evolution. 'I write to you now because of a growing threat to the teaching of science,' National Academy of Sciences chief Bruce Alberts says in a letter to colleagues March 4. He calls on academy members 'to confront the increasing challenges to the teaching of evolution in public schools.' The nation's top scientists belong to the congressionally chartered academy." It seems the science community is finally getting up enough steam to deal with the nonsense in York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the great USA with regard to "Intelligent Design" and the topic in Biology which covers Evolution. It would appear from the article which covers a survey of science teachers, gives us a picture of those teachers and the battle ahead, one that is being lead by a minority opinion that is lost and unimformed. Later I will be addressing more on this subject in an effort to understand why it is an issue in the US and nowhere else :lol: