James Dobson

Dr. James Clayton Dobson (born April 21, 1936) is a conservative protestant Christian fundamentalist and psychologist who presents a daily radio program called Focus on the Family on over 6,000 stations worldwide in more than a dozen languages. He is chairman of the board of a nonprofit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado of the same name, which he founded in 1977. His programs are estimated to be heard by more than 200 million people every day in 164 countrieshttp://www.family.org/docstudy/aboutdrdobson.cfm, and Focus on the Family is also on 80 US television stations daily.

Statements about ethics and science

Dobson made the comments during his radio show Wednesday, August 03, 2005 that reaches an estimated 220 million people worldwide. He was criticizing Sen. Bill Frist and others who support expanded stem cell research in hopes of finding cures to diseases such as cancer - saying:

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"In World War II, the Nazis experimented on human beings in horrible ways in the concentration camps, and I imagine, if you wanted to take the time to read about it, there would have been some discoveries there that benefited mankind," Dobson said on his show. "You know, if you take a utilitarian approach, that if something results in good, then it is good. But that's obviously not true. We condemn what the Nazis did because there are some things that we always could do but we haven't done, because science always has to be guided by ethics and by morality. And you remove ethics and morality, and you get what happened in Nazi Germany." http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4810795/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news

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