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The Great Debate


[also known as "Conflict At Ground Zero"]

[music by Myung, Petrucci, Portnoy, Rudess]

[lyrics by John Petrucci]


"A gallop snapshot poll taken immediately after President Bush's speach on

funding embryonic stem cell research last night shows that half of Americans

approve of his decision, 25% do not, and still another 25% are not sure what

to think."


"Most people don't even know what stem cells are."


"Who is going to scream the loudest? Will it be the right-to-lifers or will

it be the scientists? And now what is going to happen is there will be a

tremendous amount of lobbying in Washington, D.C.: scientists,

entertainers, people who want to see this research - will be coming forth."


"I am concerned about it. Christopher Reeves is concerned about it.

Everyone is concerned about it. The big question is do the ends justify

the means? When we talk about research, yes, we can cure a lot of things...

speculatively. But, where is the proof?"


"These developing human beings that you are talking about, these embryos,

were produced in an artificial, scientific environment. In vitro

fertilization is not God's will."


"That doesn't make them any less human, though, after that happens."


"We are on a road where we really don't know where we are going as far as

what's next. We are talking about harvesting embryos. We are talking about

this, we are talking about that, but what is the cost?"


"How could we possibly abandon the research?"


"That is right. That is the old question? If you think the research is good

then you may not have a problem with it. It is only if you think the

research is questionable that you get defensive about it. (You do have time

to research these embryos later if we choose to do so. While people are

suffering, we are not truly certain that this will provide a cure.)"


"And there was a great outrage in the conservative churches... You cannot

use developing humans... At that point in time they turn into humans."


"I feel that abandoning this research could be a mistake. Researching this

may allow us to save other lives or at least to improve the quality of

lives."


"We do not have the answers, yet. We need to put the money where we will get

those answers in the future. Listen, we are out of time."


What if someone said

Promise lies ahead

Hopes are high in certain scientific circles

Life won't have to end

You could walk again


What if someone said

Problems lie ahead

They've uncovered something highly controversial

The right to life is strong

Can't you see it's wrong


Humankind has reached a turning point

Poised for conflict at ground zero

Ready for a war

Do we look to our unearthly guide

Or to white coat heroes

Searching for a cure


Turn to the light

Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates

Turn to the light

Turning away would be a terrible mistake


Anarchistic moral vision

Industries of death

Facing violent opposition

Unmolested breathe


Ethic inquisitions breed

Antagonistic views

Right wing sound bite premonitions

In a labyrinth of rules


Are you justified

Are you justified

Are you justified

Justified in taking

Life to save life

Life to save life

Taking life to save life


This embryonic clay

Wrapped in fierce debate

Would be thrown away

Or otherwise discarded


Some of us believe

It may hold the key

To treatment of disease

And secrets highly guarded


Are you justified

Are you justified

Are you justified

Justified in taking

Life to save life

Life to save life

Life to save life


Human kind has reached a turning point

Poised for conflict at ground zero

Ready for a war

Do we look to our unearthly guide

Or to white coat heroes

Searching for a cure


Turn to the light

Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates

Turn to the light

Turning away would be a terrible mistake


We're reaching

But have we gone too far


Harvesting existence

Only to destroy

Carelessly together

We are sliding


Someone else's future

Four days frozen still

Someone else's fate

We are deciding


Miracle potential

Sanctity of life

Faced against each other

We're divided


Should we push the boundaries

Or should we condemn

Moral guilt and science

Have collided


Turn to the light

We defy our own mortality these days

Turn to the light

Pay attention to the questions we have raised


"One of the big questions that still remains for me, though, is that all of

these embryos that are sent or will be discarded - is this worse than just

throwing those away?"


"You do not know that all of these will be discarded. All of a sudden you

say which ones will be discarded. And all of sudden you have people being

solicited for parts of their anatomy. Then they harvest parts of people's

bodies. That is how it starts."


"People are not soliciting; there are fertility clinics that have extra

embryos."


"The research is a scientific advancement. I know we are going down a road

that we may not know where we end, but that is exactly what science is all

about. I am very sorry, but I do feel sympathy for those whose spines have

been severed... There is a possibility that we might cure them. I am

concerned about a cure for juvenile diabetes and if these types of

scientific advancement can cure these diseases, then quite candidly I think

there ought to be at least what President Bush has proposed: some limited

research."


"Stem cells come from developing human beings and they should not be

experimented on that doesn't make sense or that is unethical, but at the

same time there is great promise."


"I have a 28-year old son who is paraplegic. And if there is a small

chance that my son can be able to have feeling and be able to walk then I am

all for it."


"Human beings have been evolving for 10's of thousands of years and we are

just injecting cells from embryos into people's brains. How do we come to

do something like that?"