Do you agree with Cloning Animals or People?

[LeBuick]

That's a fair question and deserves an answer.

No, I do not believe God has blessed cloning. I don't believe that the scientific principle has anything to do with a blessing. He has apparently allowed cloning to work, but that does not mean He has blessed anything.

Could you not make this same analogy?

I do not believe that God blesses the actions of a rapist, but their are women everyday who become impregnated through a rape and their are people walking the earth whose biological fathers raped their biological mothers.

And think of how many untold millions of people who have walked the earth who parents were fornicators and adulterers. God does not bless those actions either, but for some reason He sometimes allows children to be conceived in the process.

Then again, there are christians couples who are devoted to each other and to God who cannot concieve. Does this mean God is punishing them or not blessing them? No....not by any stretch of the imagination.

Life is in God's hands. Why He allows fertilization in some instances and not in others will never be ours to understand.



Yes, there is a difference. In artifical insemination, you start with a separate egg and sperm.

In cloning you start with an egg and a live cell from a donor.

But you end up implanting them both back into a host mother.



I agree. I do not believe that anyone has fully cloned a human being even though there are some kooks out there who say that they have.

The animals that have been cloned (sheep, cat,....) did not live a full life span.

I stand corrected, thank you my Sister...

 

[saturneptune]

There was a mad scientist who had a laboratory on the 34th floor of a skyscraper in New York. He successfully cloned a human being. The only problem was the clone could do nothing but curse. The scientist tried to teach the clone proper manners to no avail. Finally he told the clone, next time you curse, I am going to throw you out the window. Sure enough, the clone cursed again, so the scientist opens the window and throws the clone out. The clone drops to the side walk, and it kills him. A policeman happens to be walking by and sees the whole thing. He calls for help, and a group of police rush up to the laboratory and arrest the mad scientist for making an obscene clone fall.

 

[Aaron]

In cloning you start with an egg and a live cell from a donor. But you end up implanting them both back into a host mother.

Cloning does not require the implantation of the embyro in a host mother. That's only for reproductive cloning. A cloned human embryo can live for several days in vitro.

This kind of human cloning has been and is being done primarily to harvest the embryonic stem cells, a process that kills the baby.

 

[LeBuick]

Cloning does not require the implantation of the embyro in a host mother. That's only for reproductive cloning. A cloned human embryo can live for several days in vitro.

This kind of human cloning has been and is being done primarily to harvest the embryonic stem cells, a process that kills the baby.

That's what I was thinking, which makes a difference between cloning for reproductive purposes and cloning for medical reasons.

 

[Scarlett O.]

Cloning does not require the implantation of the embyro in a host mother. That's only for reproductive cloning. A cloned human embryo can live for several days in vitro.

This kind of human cloning has been and is being done primarily to harvest the embryonic stem cells, a process that kills the baby.

Yes, thank you Aaron.

I was talking about reproductive cloning to address the question of a cloned human being having a soul.

 

[Aaron]

That's what I was thinking, which makes a difference between cloning for reproductive purposes and cloning for medical reasons.

The only difference is that in one, you'd be wanting the baby to live. In the other you're killing it to do experiments on it.