Expert: Marco - 6/3/2011

Question
Hi my name is Jean-Luke and for my religion class we have to find out the christian views on designer babies.

What is your opinion on designer babies

Answer
Dear Jean-Luke,

I believe that the embryo has already a soul, and therefore he deserve the same respect as any adult human being.
Any experiments on an embryo is a terrible crime.
You must in fact understand that the embryo has already the full genetic asset of the adult human being; the formation of the embryo is in fact the only discontinous process in the growth of the organism, and therefore the formation of the embryo is the only possible moment which can be identified as the beginning of the human life. After the formation of the embryo, no changes would occur in the genetic asset of the organism, ad the growth of the organism is a continous process, step by step.
In other words, the question everybody should ask is:
When does the fetus become a human being?
People gives different answers to this question, but these answers are based on arbitrary criteria; I think that the only objective and not arbitraty criterion is the fact that the genetic asset of the organism forms with the formation of the embryo, and the genetic asset determines all the features of the adult organism.
I think that to consider the embryo as a human being is the only possible logical choice.


Your brother in Christ,

Marco

PS I think that faith cannot come only from logic, because to have faith in God means to trust and love God.
I think however that logics and science prove the existence of our soul and the existence of  God and that there are many rational arguments strongly supporting the christian faith.
The explanation of these aguments is rather long and Allexperts allows only to give short answers. You can find such arguments  in the following site

http://xoomer.alice.it/fedeescienza/englishnf.html

where  I analyse the incongruencies of the materialistic conception of the mind, on the basis of our present scientific knowledges about brain and matter.
This analysis points out how the laws of physics  prove that the   brain cannot generate consciousness, which existence implies  the presence in man of a unbiological/unmaterial element. The problem of consciousness is then strictly connected to the one of the existence of the soul and, consequently, the existence of God.
In the first article entitled “Mind and brain...” you can find a general discussion of the mind and brain problem from a scientific point of view.
In the second article entitled “Scientific contraddictions in materialism”
you  can find an explanation of the fundamental inconsistencies of  the  typical arguments used by materialists, such as the concept of emergent, macroscopic or holist property, complexity, information, etc.
In the section called “FAQ: answers to  visitors' questions” you can find the answer to many typical questions, such as "Are there any scientifically proved miracles?", "Does the existence of the universe imply the existence of God?", "Can science explain God?", "Can science establish which is the true religion?", "Can science explain consciousness in the future?", and many others.