1) Are there products of technological that are intrinsically evil?: Many scientists directly seek practical applications of their research or in other words do applied science. However, since science makes in order to know, virtually all fundamental research can lead to practical applications, to new technologies. Are there any products of technology that can only serve evil purposes?

2) Scientist using immoral means to achieve a good end: Give an example, other than those mentioned in the reading, of scientists using an immoral means to achieve a good end.

3) How do we know what is morally right and wrong?:Certainly, parents and society try to guide people's moral development, instilling in them by teaching and reward and punishment good values. Some claim that morality is simply a matter of social consensus. This is patently false. That a society as a whole agrees to genocide, apartheid, female genital mutilation, does not render these practices moral. Thus, individuals must have some way of knowing right and wrong that is independent of teaching and reinforcement from parents and society. What is it? How do we learn how we ought to treat others?

4) Therapeutic cloning:Are religions that hold therapeutic cloning of humans to be immoral holding back the advance of science? (The purpose of therapeutic cloning is to take cells or parts of the clone and use them to repair another human individual.)

5) Religion holding back scientific progress:Religions that proscribe acts such as those named in the previous question are arguably not illegitimately holding back scientific progress. Are there cases where religion wrongly holds/held back the advance of science by forbidding certain things as being immoral?

6) Reproductive cloning:Are religions that hold reproductive cloning of humans to be immoral holding back the advance of science? (The purpose of reproductive cloning is to produce another individual with the same genome as its parent.)

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