Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 41 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION still confused, I will explain the results of the first experi- ment to you, fully, after we have Churchill One and Churchill Two immersed in the growing bath.” Strothmeyer wondered how the old man was going to ex- plain away the obvious fact that Carlos Delgado was not Louis the Gimp, in anything more than bodily form, but he knew his superior too well to doubt that there would be an explanation, logically and forcefully expressed. He was not disappointed. As the Churchill cells began to bubble comfortingly in their two preliminary nests, Knaut turned to him and said, kindly: “Doctor, sit down. I want to make this matter perfectly clear to you, so that you will not be handicapped in your work by notions which are totally outside the framework of true and valid science.” Strothmeyer sat down on a stool, where he could keep an eye on the nests, and listened. “In the first place,’ Knaut grasped the lapels of his smock and became the professor in the classroom, “the opinion that the human personality is independent of the human body—no matter how widely such an opinion may be held by preachers, politicians, so- called educators, psycho- quacks, Jungians and other fools—is an opinion which runs counter to every prin- ciple of true science. The development of organic life on this planet, from the merest speck in the newly formed sea, nearly a billion years ago, to the momentous experiment which we perform here today, in beginning the recreation | and reduplication of Sir Win- ston Churchill from a few cells of a body long dead, is a development which brooks no nonsense about souls and spirits. If you, Doctor, had no knowledge of the origin of mankind except what you had read in the Bible, then I could understand your clinging to this superstitious notion of the existence of a mind without a body. But you are thoroughly and painfully familiar with evolution. “You know twenty times as much about it as Darwin ever knew. You have seen it right here in this laboratory, thous- comicloooks.conn