I'm not really a fan of the idea of cloning, even for body parts. That opinion could change, however, if myself or a member of my family were in need of a spare body part, I will admit that.
But even though I don't care for the idea, I don't think of cloning as man creating man.
It's along the same line (although not the same process) as any other reproductive procedure outside the womb, such as invetro, etc.
Man isn't creating anything. If an infertile couple gets pregnant via a petri dish, the doctors may have assisted the sperm and the egg to unite, but they didn't create the sperm and egg and therefore didn't create life.
The idea of cloning is the same to me. Science may be able to transfer the fertilized genetic information from any typical cell into the unfertilized egg cell from host female and make a genetic duplicate of the donor, but they haven't created anything.
They have only copied it.
Just like any normal reproduction the cloned embryo would develop normally into the host mother's womb, but not be biologically related to the host mother.
If it were human, it would have a personality all of its own and a soul all of its own, completely separate from the donor.
I don't see the necessity in cloning animals or humans, but I don't see it as a violation against God in an attempt to create anything. I just see it as a fruitless endeavor.
Creation comes from God and God alone.
