Comment Science is in no way obligated . . . (Score 1) 659
to spare religions any dilemmas of doctrine.
So the priests and theologians of certain religions (which believe humans have souls but animals don't) will suddenly have to figure out what their doctrine is regarding human-nonhuman crosses. So what? Why should that be of any concern to the rest of us? If a non-human animal were somehow proven to have a soul and a belief in a god, that wouldn't threaten *my* religion a bit.
So the priests and theologians of certain religions (which believe humans have souls but animals don't) will suddenly have to figure out what their doctrine is regarding human-nonhuman crosses. So what? Why should that be of any concern to the rest of us? If a non-human animal were somehow proven to have a soul and a belief in a god, that wouldn't threaten *my* religion a bit.