If you put God in the title, you might want to include Him in the book

You'd think that a book titled God and the Embryo would mention God fairly often, wouldn't you?  You'd be wrong.  I would title this book Mostly Poor Ethical Arguments For/Against Steam Cell Research.  At least we've moved beyond the freaky trans/posthuman stuff.  Tonight we begin the bioethics section of our class - stem cell research, etc.  Field trip tonight!  We have to go to Trinity to hear our prof lecture, then we'll join another class to discuss the lecture. 

I took today and Friday off intending to finish my paper on the resurrection of the dead, which is a joke because I haven't started writing it.  I'm a little stressed.  There is no due date for this paper, which I now see as a bad thing, because it gives me free reign to procrastinate, which I'm very good at.  We're supposed to do either two 20 pages papers or one 40 page paper.  I was going to do two separate papers, but now I'm not sure.  So today I have to finish reading (Occasional Mention of) God and the Embryo and finish taking notes on Bynum's book.  Tomorrow I will try to read the relevant parts of Resurrection and Moral Order and go back over the freaky transhumanist reading, so I can compare and contrast it with the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.  I might post on Bynum later today if I find it helpful in clarifying my thoughts.