Cloning Vs Religion

Genetic cloning is defined as the production of a living being that is exactly identical to an existing living being from which it will originate. The two main purposes of cloning are to take a step towards immortality, since one can create an exact younger copy of oneself, and to rescue endangered species which may be of great medical potential to human beings. Other minor purposes include having a better sense of identity, hope, and religious freedom. One can study one’s identity better through cloning, since it is always easier for someone to judge other people in front of them when compared to judging their own selves directly. Hope is brought about through cloning since scientists would feel like they have mastered every single aspect in life-they could give rise to human beings after all. Two religions, the Raelian Religion and the Summum Religion

The Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland once said, “Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.” (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Cloning can refer to a number of processes, but is generally understood to mean creating an exact copy of a biological organism. For example, Scottish researchers created a lamb named Dolly from the udder cells of another sheep. (Cloning Fact Sheet) However, cloning can also refer to growing organs from existing cells. The issue for cloning is that creating a whole organism is expensive and goes against most religions. While this is true, cloning organs can offer people transplants in a cheap and legal manner.

    When one thinks of cloning, what comes to mind?  Movies such as "Multiplicity" can give the lay person a very distorted image of cloning.  In this particular movie, actor Michael Keaton plays a father who cannot handle his crazily busy lifestyle.  In an effort to be the perfect father, husband and employee, he has himself cloned fairly easily at a nearby medical center.  The three clones each have their own personality: one is sarcastic and bitter, one is sweet and sensitive and one is a half-wit- but all are identical.  This cloning process is completely false.  At this time, scientists have cloned animals including Rhesus monkeys, mice and probably the biggest breakthrough:

The debate surrounding cloning has been talked about in our society for some time. Once Dolly the sheep was cloned, many believed human cloning was inevitable. People usually feel very strongly about this issue one way or another, whether it be for religious or personal beliefs and opinions. In popular media and many novels, including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the idea of man creating life is seen as a man “playing God” or the person creating life is shown as insane or evil. In Frankenstein, the scientist, Victor Frankenstein creates life and becomes so disgusted with what he did that he abandons the monster.

They argue that through cloning, we are being God, and religiously, no one can be God, God is one and only he has the power to give or take life. Also, Religion leaders argue that they would be challenged critically to be up-to-date in scientific developments and to carefully evaluate the theological, moral and legal stakes of the innovations. Likewise, James J. Walter [bioethics Chair at Loyola University in Los Angeles] argued that “religious leaders and believers…confronted with scientific developments that are ‘ambiguous morally and theologically,’ should be ‘careful but not wary, hopeful but not wide-eyed, ‘assessing developments as they come advancing’" (qtd. in “Many oppose human cloning”). Courtney S. Campbell [associate professor at Oregon State University] claimed that religious leaders are often seen as ‘problems’ rather than ‘contributors’ to community

In conclusion, cloning has many massive advantages, that could greatly help our future generations. Cloning can help our future generations by, making our kids and their kids healthier by potentially eliminating infertility, and by helping cure diseases such as AIDS, and cancer. But one of the slight disadvantages is the interaction between cloning and religious things. But if we were to ignore the amazing medical possibilities of cloning just because of the interaction between it and cloning, then it would be a grave

Clones are humans. This statement embodies the crux of the controversy regarding the ethics of human cloning. If clones are humans, then they should receive the same rights as humans who were born ‘naturally’. But how do you determine humanity? The film Never Let Me Go (2010), based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel of the same name, helps answer the question “Should we clone?” by establishing that humanity is more than the way one enters the world and by highlighting the unethical issues that may arise from cloning.

The concept of human cloning is highly controversial and has many gray areas. A lot of this controversy is caused by a misunderstanding about how human cloning actually works. The main cause of the lack of knowledge and understanding about the subject of cloning is the unrealistic depiction of cloning and Hollywood cliches that are presented by popular culture. A lot of myths arise from sci-fi movies such as The Sixth Day. In this specific movie there is the classic evil sociopath scientist consolidating power and using science immorally to aid his campaign, the human body chamber/artificial fish tank womb, the carbon copy clone that has the exact same looks and memories as the original person, and a whole

Technologies’ process to clone humans or animals is unethical because it’s artificial and it interferes with nature. Interfering, can be decided wrong and lead to the domino effect, meaning that it could change the attributes of life or alter negative results. According to Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Internet encyclopedia of philosophy, "Even attempting to perfect human reproductive cloning would entail a trial and error approach that would lead to the destruction of many embryos, and may produce severely disabled children before a healthy one is born". This means, that we would be wasting various amounts of the embryo’s cells before we can perfect a clone. Cloning also goes against religious ethics, for instance, people who have religious beliefs generally oppose the process of cloning human, because they believe it would result in man becoming the creator, and us having the superior power. According to Bob Sullivan, in 2013 NBC News, “For Christians, to bring … a new human or animal life by cloning as opposed to normal sexual reproduction is to ‘play God’ and obtain the power of the creator”. This means that some religions don’t allow this since they believe that a human will be taking control of what God

From Star Wars to the Jurassic Park movies cloning has always been a science fiction story that was light years ahead of us. But with recent evidence and research to clone living organisms, the far away fantasies of cloning we have been dreaming about for many years is rapidly becoming a reality, even faster than we think. Twenty years ago, in 1997, Dolly the Sheep was the first successful clone to be produced from an adult mammal. In the article “The Coming of Clones” American Scientists announced in 2013 that they had for the first time successfully obtained stem cells from cloned human embryos (the building blocks of cloning life). Due to this announcement and the cloning of Dolly, cloning has become a debatable topic that has both negative

According to Judith A. Boss, author of Analyzing Moral Issues, cloning is an asexual reproduction process in which genetically identical individuals are produced (Boss 126). Two authors, specifically, Julian Savulescu and Leon Kass have very distinct and different points of view on cloning and genetic enhancement. Human cloning has become a significant argument that most people have a stance either for or against it. Cloning is allowed and occurs in our society today, but whether one finds it acceptable or not is a different point. People have their own reasons for being in favor of cloning or being against it, but there are some people who judge if cloning is acceptable on a situation-by-situation basis. I am strongly against human

“Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture,” a quote from a scientist and physician, Leon Kass. Even scientists believe that this isn’t the way technological advancements should lean over to. They should focus on technology that might benefit the human race. For example, maybe scientists could find the way to cure diseases, cancer, and possibly find a way to expand human life, including animal lives. Cloning is a big ethical concern to everyone alike; scientists, people, physicians believe that this way of technological advances is clearly not what the human race

The journey that human cloning has taken has been one of dramatic highs and lows, heated arguments and confusion about the path ahead. When researchers witnessed the birth of the first cloned mammal, they were ecstatic, but this high ended with the tragic early death of this sheep, Dolly, due to abnormalities (Jaenisch 2004: 2787). The initial success and progress in this field fueled scientists to want to do further research into this technology, which would eventually leading to work with human embryos. This work grew to a high enough profile to be addressed by former president George W. Bush, who decided to take away all funding for human cloning. This cut included both therapeutic cloning that worked with embryos not intended to be

Summary: The necessary technology has been created, as evident in the story of Dolly the sheep. People still pose questions such as the role of God in Society. Here is a list of pros of human cloning : It could eliminate defective genes , It is considered as the logical next step in the reproductive technology, It could aid in faster recoveries from injuries, it gives a new meaning to genetic modification. As all things human cloning also has cons. Here is a short list of those cons : it risks the possibility of faster aging, it can bring forth a reduced sense of individuality, it can cause a divide among people and it might decrease the overall value of human life.(Pao Chang, 2016)

If a random individual were asked twenty years ago if he/she believed that science could clone an animal, most would have given a weird look and responded, “Are you kidding me?” However, that once crazy idea has now become a reality, and with this reality, has come debate after debate about the ethics and morality of cloning. Yet technology has not stopped with just the cloning of animals, but now many scientists are contemplating and are trying to find successful ways to clone human individuals. This idea of human cloning has fueled debate not just in the United States, but also with countries all over the world. I believe that it is not morally and ethically right