Creation Cloning As an Alternative
God created a man, and from one of his ribs, he created a woman. Then, the two of them created a new life. This was all naturally done. It was God's most wonderful creation. Cloning brings up a life dilemma. Cloning puts in a single or a group of individuals the power of creating and granting life. And this is done by basically duplicating one individual, by creating a twin of somebody else. Furthermore, cloning is a life dilemma because it makes the whole human race to choose one more time between right and wrong.The first thing that must be cleared up is what is cloning and what is a clone. The biological definition of clone is "an organism that has the same genetic information as another organism or organisms" ("Cloning" 1997). Therefore cloning is the production of a genetically identical duplicate of an "organism" ("Cloning" 1997). People who argue in favor of cloning believe that it could directly help in curing diseases or to acquire new data for the sciences of embryology. Also, agricultural industry thinks cloning can help them as it improves. Cloning may be able to help the industry to produce better farm animals. The goal is to produce farm animals with ideal characte
Scientists also are looking to help the endangered species to increase their population. But, they are mainly focusing their efforts for the improvement of life for humans. For example, "scientists foresee the cloning of pigs to produce organs that humans will not reject" (Wills 22). There are also possibilities that cloning could provide benefits to those who would like children. For instance, couples who are infertile, or have genetic disorders could use cloning to produce a child. Cloning could also provide children who need organ transplants to have a clone born to donate organs. Furthermore, it could help to provide a copy of a child for a couple whose child had died. Besides the debate of cloning being ethical or not, much more animal research should be done before even trying human cloning. For some people might be OK to experiment with animals, but human being is a total different issue. Scientist cannot experiment with humans like they do with laboratory mousses. It is totally different. On the other hand, this brings up a different issue and this is the bad treatment scientist give to animals. This will keep on going on if scientist want to perfectionate cloning. Ramsey, Paul. "Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control." P. 174. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995. After scientists cloned the first animal [a sheep called "Dolly"], scientists and media raised the dilemma of human cloning. This issue is to the point where President Bill Clinton banned human cloning. As mentioned in Silberner's article, President Clinton said on this: "we must ratify the ethical consensus of the scientific and religious communities, and ban the cloning of human being"(2). Bruce, Dr. Donald. "Cloning, a Step too Far? (1998, January 5) Society, Religion and Technology. Project, Church of Scotland, [WWW Document]
Some common words found in the essay are:
Cystic Fibrosis, Ian Wilmut, Alternative God, Ancient Greek's, Natural Science, President Clinton, Magnus Harris, Dossey MD, God Silberner, Dolly Roslin, human cloning, cloning help, endangered species, human race, cloning ethical, cloning people, clone human, people cloning, cloning human, believe cloning, hastings center report, national bioethics advisory, 24 february 1997, bioethics advisory commission, people human cloning,
Approximate Word count = 2365
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
