can human being be cloned?is it ethical??any harms to human evolution??

Answer 1

Wrong question.
The question should be "Why do we want to clone humans? What will the effect be on our self image, our self worth, our personal identity? Is it good that we are all different? (from an evolutionary prespective, yes), or do us humans know what the hell we're doing? Natural selection over millions of years has withstood the TEST OF TIME, .. are we conciouss of the long term effects, on our social, emotional, psychological health?".

I only see advantages when body parts of humans themselves can be clones/regenerated, and even then, eternal youth or health, will probably hurt the value of life more than it will serve it!

Often scientists do not concern themselves with social, ethical or psychological matters (fortunately most do, but it only takes a hand full who don't, and plenty of those, many do it for money, promising doing it for peaceful purposes only, but end up doing anything for money.. you can already get your dead cat cloned back to life for money. Gentically modified food promise to feed the world and leave nobody hungry, in reality, it become's poor man's food, served to the same people who previously ate natural healthy food, and natural (biological) food remains sold, but becomes food only affordable to the rich.. the aim of those bio-tech companies is not to make a better world, but to increase profit margins.. and I think it's bad to mix commercial interests with human life.

My personal belief is, Cloning organs, yes, cloning humans, no.

Answer 2

Cloning humans is possible, but currently very unlikely to be successful. There are still too many flaws, and since no human clones have been successfully created, scientists don't know what to expect as far as what would happen to clones over time. Ethicly, many people oppose the idea of cloning, especially that of human beings. Religous leaders fear that if human beings were cloned they may have no souls. Plus, there is really no need for human cloning, seeing as how people are already facing over population. Cloning organs and body parts is generally less frowned upon than cloning entire human beings. Although it is still currently quite unlikely, if it could be done it might present less of a risk to the recipient because they could use the recipient's own tissue, eliminating the possibility of rejection. As far as evolution goes, cloning would be bad, because it would reduce divercity among human genetics, presenting the same problem as inbreeding. Societies thrive on genetic differences, and if there were a lack of this, a single disease may easily wipe out MUCH of the species, so overall, cloning's very few benefits are extremely outweighed by its risks.

Answer 3

Cloning is incredibly difficult to do (essentially, the creators of Dolly were extremely lucky in hitting on the right process). It's not illegal in the United States (on the Federal level at least), as the House and Senate have yet to agree on the same bill. There are problems associated with it, too -- without getting into too much detail, clones age more quickly and live much shorter lives than originals (with certain exceptions).

As far as ethics goes, most people agree that reproductive cloning is unethical, but therapeutic cloning (creating an embryo to harvest stem cells if they're needed to grow an organ, for example) is much more accepted.

And for human evolution, it's incredibly slow. The only major effect that we can have on it would be to "weed out" genetic abnormalities (autism, mental handicaps, blindness, etc). Currently, we can only test for major genetic diseases and perform an abortion -- in the future, specific corrections may be possible. We barely understand the function of almost all genes, and we don't know nearly enough to genetically engineer a person to our specifications.

Answer 4

Humans can be cloned- but not in the since of science fiction stories. Scientists still need more than just a strand of DNA and what not. Humans have evolved enough so far- we aint going no where else. And Ethical... well that depends with you...

Answer 5

In theory, any life can be cloned. The optimum time to clone is when the organism is young because DNA degrades in our cells as we age. A clone of an elderly man would soon be elderly itself as those deteriorations that made him old are passed to the clone. Replicative failure would occur in clones no matter the age if clones were repetitively cloned from clones, even if done at early stages.

Answer 6

There were a few scientists who claim to be able to clone humans but have not done it. They have however cloned human embrios. There are huge ethical questions and it would be impossible to simply say whether it was ethical or not

Answer 7

scientist are not able to clone humans yet it is ethical and it wouldnt do that much harm to human evolution

Answer 8

we probably could clone a human being successfully but more than likely there will be a string of failures before that success. there in lays the moral dilemma.
FYI: we didn't evolve, that's the Talisman of they that have no God.