Stem cell research- Part Three

This week I'm going to discuss a few more ethical objections to stem cell research. Here are two main ones:

1: Many Christians believe that it's simply unnatural to mess with stem cells. They think that by doing this we are trying to be God ourselves instead of letting God be God. We should let God decide the time for us to die, they state, and trying to prolong our lives that way is simply against the laws of nature. Some contradictions to this statment are "who says God isn't working through these doctors to help people? Who says God doesn't want doctors to do this?" I'm not taking any sides here now. I'm simply stating two different opinions.

2: There are many arguements as to when the soul enters the embryo. When does killing the embryo became murder? That is a question many Christians and people of different religions debate. Muslims believe that souls don't enter the bodies of babies until several days after they are born. Thus Muslims don't object to stem cell research. Many Christians, however, believe that once there's life there's a soul there. I mean the body and soul aren't separated that much are they? Hmm this is going pretty deep. I'll have to think on that one.

What do you think about these objections? Next week our class is having a debate on this subject. (That should be entertaining. haha) I'll try to state my opinion on all of this and wrap this up next week.