You might have heard last week that Shinya Yamanaka, a scientist at Kyoto University, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work showing how induced pluripotent stem cells could be derived from adult cells and substituted, in both research and therapy, for embryonic stem cells.  In other words: Yamanaka found a way to get the potential benefits of embryonic stem cells from non-embryonic stem cells.  Yamanaka’s achievement was undoubtedly driven by his religious convictions, and his award is a certainly a victory for religious outfits such as the Roman Catholic Church and the National Right to Life Committee — which is precisely why secular liberals might be less than joyous over the news.  However, Slate columnist William Saletan says secular liberals should put aside their religious…