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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
What a bunch of idiots. I wonder if I join would I get banned from there? I think I'll join. 
ETA: They probably also think the earth is a 50,000 years old too. lol |
They probably do! Apparently, they took a poll on how many of their members base their flat earth belief on passages from the bible but the link was dead. (darn it!)
That's probably one of the few messageboards where the trolls are the sane ones.
Anyway, back to the original topic....You got me curious so I googled "cross-species in vitro fertilization" and "cross-species embryo transfer" and I was surprised to find that this is actually being done on animals. A woman named Betsy Dresser has pioneered the practice in an effort to save some endangered species from extinction.
I doubt that it would ever be tried with human embryos. First, you'd have to find an animal that would accept the embryo, then one that could actually birth a human baby (I certainly have no idea about ape reproductive organs) and then there would inevitably be some legislation that would be put in place against it since some related practices have been made illegal. I was surprised, however, to find that there are some sketchy things going on nonetheless.
For example, a human nucleus has been put into a cow cell and there actually was cell division
(er something like that). The "thing" was destroyed shortly after observing that it was possible. (google "human-cow hybrid" for more) Creepy, to say the least.
Haven't these scientists seen The Fly? IMHO, it's yet another situation where
just because you can doesn't mean you should.