Reply #24: Hope this helps

[shawn703]

Creationism is the belief that man was created by God, as opposed to evolving from lower life forms.

Intelligent design is like "Creationism-lite". Basically, it's evolution that is controlled by God.

The objection to stem cell research comes from the belief that even a two-day old embryo is a human life. The pro-lifers who say life begins at conception say using stem cells from embryos (as opposed to stem cells from adults) is murder since the extraction of these cells means the destruction of the embryo.