06 October 2010

Science 1 - Religion 0

Robert Edwards was on Monday awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for medicine, in recognition of his work on in vitro fertilisation which revolutionised efforts to tackle infertility around the world.

Now more than ever I think it is great news.

However, it didn’t surprise me at all that the Vatican immediately criticised the decision to award him the prize claiming his work had created a market for human eggs and created problems of embryos being frozen.

What is surprising is that this statement came from an outdated institution that believes in immaculate conception!

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