Leftist theologian Bill Press says: "If Jesus cured people of leprosy, dropsy and palsy, is there any doubt that He would embrace today's efforts to find a cure for Parkinson's or heart disease using embryonic stem-cell research? I think not."
Someone needs to do some brain-cell research on this guy. Even setting aside religious beliefs, there's not a whit of logic in his statement. Let's reword this for its true meaning: "If Jesus cured people of leprosy, dropsy and palsy, is there any doubt that He would embrace today's efforts to find a cure for Parkinson's or heart disease using the tiny bodies of ex utero babies? I think not."
See? Taken for what it is, this utterance is asinine in the extreme. First-off, Bill, Jesus didn't use the discarded corpuses of partly-formed human beings to heal people. Nor did He condone it. He used the miraculous and awesome power of God. We have no reason to believe that he approves such research. Second, medical research (which you have placed on a pedestal) has shown that the positive effects of embryonic stem-cell research are dubious, at best. That's putting a nice spin on it. Adult stem-cell research has met with far more success. Third, if God will allow the curing and eradication of these horrific diseases, don't you think He might provide a way of going about this without mining human embryos? Since you find the great superiority of adult stem-cell research unworthy of even the merest mention in your article, I must conclude that not only are you illogical and unChristian in your thought process, but also dishonest.
His reasoning, in a nutshell: Jesus cured people. Embryonic stem-cell research cures people. Ergo, Jesus would've danced a jig over its prospects. Ignoring the lies implicit in this, that's a leap of logic that would cause Darwin to fall flat on his face in the evolutionary soup.
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