tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898928.post-866291902002-12-28T12:32:00.000-05:002003-02-11T11:15:29.000-05:00<b>Genetic Engineering. In and of itself, it isn't a bad thing. Scientists have learned how to grow human body parts, and internal organs as replacements for lost ones. They grew a human ear on the back of a rat, which admittedly was disgusting, but if it would give someone their confidence as a human being back, it is well worth the strangeness of it. <br />That having been said, there is no excuse for human cloning. Cloning a human being would bring up too many ethical questions, like, would the child have a soul? Would it have cloning-related health problems as it grows up, like the sheep and cows that have been cloned before it? <br />and, would cloning replace human procreation and reproduction, the most sacred act known to human beings? These questions, and others too numerous to get into here would have to be raised and dealt with before human cloning could happen. <br /> <br />Now, we have this Company that is tied with a UFO cult called the Raelians (i think i spelled that right) that claims that it has produced the first human clone. This is probably a hoax, but, if it isn't, then it should be investigated by the government, and this company should be put out of business. Human beings should never be in the business of playing god, and that's basically what would have happened if the story that the Raelians are claiming is in fact true. Go to the link below and check out the story from the BBC and see what you think about the whole mess. I hope to GOD above that it isn't true. <br /> <br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2610755.stm">BBC NEWS | Health | Cloning claim prompts call for ban</a> <br /> <br /><b>===UPDATE===</b> <br />Well not actually an update, but since I haven't produced anything in a day or so, I thought I would give another link to this whole cloning story, this one from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. <b><a href="http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/1202/images/clone1227.jpg"> Ok here's a representative of the alien cult, one of the aliens themselves from the look of her. </a></b> <a href="http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/00img/doc03.jpg">And here's another. Shave her head, dead ringer for a grey alien.</a> Could they have gotten a more alien looking woman to be the spokeswoman? <br /><b><a href="http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/science/1202/27clone.html">Here's the actual article.(click on this different colored link). </a></b>No matter how you slice it, if this is at all to be believed, this is WRONG in so many ways and on so many levels. <br />Xavierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07946810144546930671noreply@blogger.com