{"id":5391,"date":"2006-01-18T00:37:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/ant-hill.html"},"modified":"2006-01-18T00:37:32","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T00:37:32","slug":"ant-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/ant-hill.html","title":{"rendered":"ANT Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert King, OP writes, in regard to &quot;A Pro-Life Rift?&quot; below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I read this post and the comments, and I think your San Francisco Bay Area readers would be quite interested in a forum that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dspt.edu\/docs\/about_us\/mission.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology<\/a><span> is holding in Berkeley, titled \u201cStem Cell Research: A Dialogue\u201d featuring presentations by Dr. William Hurlbut, M.D. of Stanford University and Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P. of Providence College.<\/span>Dr. Hurlbut plans to present alternative approaches (the ANT and OAR approaches) to developing pluripotent stem cells without destroying human embryos, and Fr. Austriaco will explore scientific and philosophical models of the beginning of life. Their presentations will lead into a Q&amp;A session moderated by Dr. John Berkman of the Catholic University of America.<\/p>\n<p>Our hope is to hold a dialogue\u2014not a debate, but a discussion and investigation of the technique\u2014that will explore the possibilities and issues surrounding one approach to stem cell research. Without claiming this approach as a \u201cCatholic\u201d one, we think it is well worth exploring at length and with scholarly rigor. If any readers are in the Bay Area, we\u2019d welcome their participation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStem Cell Research: A Dialogue\u201d will be held on Tuesday, February 7th at 7:00pm in the PSR Chapel at 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley. A reception will follow. For more info, you (and your readers) can contact <a href=\"mailto:crenz@dspt.edu\">Fr. Christopher Renz, O.P. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert King, OP writes, in regard to &quot;A Pro-Life Rift?&quot; below: I read this post and the comments, and I think your San Francisco Bay Area readers would be quite interested in a forum that Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology is holding in Berkeley, titled \u201cStem Cell Research: A Dialogue\u201d featuring presentations by Dr.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ANT Hill - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/ant-hill.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ANT Hill - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert King, OP writes, in regard to &quot;A Pro-Life Rift?&quot; 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