From A Yahoo Discussion Board by dvz88

People should really stop name-calling with science they don't understand. It is one thing to speak bad about something if you are educated on the topic. It is another thing to spout hate, when you are not fully educated on something.

I am a Ph.D. microbiologist and have been in science for 14 years. It is a disgrace that people out there think that we, as scientists, are devoting our lives to solving disease/problems at a low paying jobs (we get paid as much as or less than people with high school educations), and that we are doing this with "bad moral intentions". Ridiculous.

We are sacrificing our lives to do this work. And it is to save others: Your grandma who doesn't have it all together any more. Or the boy who was just diagnosed with cancer. Or someone who was in an accident who needs a transplant, a skin graft, or new research to walk again. Or someone who gets infected by a virus or bacteria that needs an antibiotic to survive. Those moments are why we do this for a living when it is far from a glamorous lifestyle. 14-hour days...weekends...grinding away and getting paid less than 50K a year. The only benefit is finding that cure or medicine that you know you contributed to...to help someone else who needs it.

Let me point out two important things:
1) First, an embryo is a ball of cells that hardly constitutes life. The skin that recycles itself daily on your body has the same amount of cells. While a path is set in motion with an embryo to make life, true life...life with a purpose...does not actually exist until much later. We are talking 8-12 weeks when you actually get brain waves and functions.

2) If you really want to understand God's purpose, then go into science and try to understand it. Only then do you really understand how nature functions. Now, people will debate and say that there is no divine purpose. Nature just is, and that may be true. But for me, I study science because I believe it provides a glimpse of higher power. How things function at a molecular level. That beauty, that simple wisdom, I believe can only come from that. Right now we are only scratching the surface of DNA and proteins in your body, and how they all work. That complexity is not beyond Nature's realm. Natural selection explains a lot about how things have gotten to this point. Do you know that some signaling pathways in bacteria...are similar to humans. Imagine that. It is all connected. But I believe, something set it all in motion. That is beauty of it. That is God. Imagine that all of this can come from the big bang. That there is one master plan for life, and then nature just takes over. That is amazing.

So ask yourself. Would you rather be in the dark about science and make stupid comments without understanding its beauty? Or would you rather try to understand how it all works to better people's lives. People who are already alive. Maybe a soldier wounded from a stupid war, maybe his life can be saved by our studying it, an appreciation of how it works. Think about it. Then ask yourself, these same people sent us to war based on lies. A war that ended up killing close to a 100,000 people. Who is more moral? A person devoted to saving others or a person devoted to war and lies.