Just a random question that just popped into my head. I know that Christianity is against cloning and I myself am against it, but doesn't it show cloning as happening in the Bible and it was not considered a negative act because it was the creation of man and woman? So being that it wasn't a negative act doesn't it really make it ok if you are going by the Bible?
2006-07-25 16:39:31 · 4 answers · asked by ancient_wolf_13 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sex can be determined with genetic engineering so it does not have to be Adam 2
2006-07-25 16:45:47 · update #1
If it was cloning, then Eve would be Adam 2. So, no....
2006-07-25 16:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by gracefully_saved 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Eve's creation was not technically a cloning operation.
In cloning, the genetic material taken from the "host" or "parent" organism is made into an EXACT duplicate of the original. The DNA doesn't change.
Plants do this all the time. Strawberries, for example, reproduce by runners, technically a vegetative clone. The new plant is a genetic duplicate of the original, just younger.
When God took a piece out of Adam's side, He did NOT make an identical "twin", He made a sexual counterpart. Eve was different from Adam; she had different DNA (at the very least at the XY chromosome) and different reproductive organs.
Just because you find an act in the Bible, doesn't mean that act is ok for humans to do. Some things are too great for people to handle, and should be left up to God. If people want to try and create life, perhaps they should start with terraforming a barren space rock into a biosphere. That alone would be impressive.
2006-07-25 17:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people are against cloning--- why would you even want to subject a human offspring to that --- look what has happened to the animals they have cloned! how many were aborted or killed due to deformities before they produced the ones that looked normal but later on found out that the animals had genetic problems --- we have enough problems and health concerns without science creating more----
God created the man and the woman they weren't clones--- if they were cloned she'd have the same genetics and that would of caused their offspring to have abnormalities,retardation, or they wouldn't of been able to reproduce at all --- ( have you ever seen a child that was the result of incest? I have and they suffer greatly due to having too much of the same genetics)
2006-07-25 17:18:48 · answer #3 · answered by jaimestar64cross 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, if it was, God made a mistake and God does not make mistakes.
2006-07-25 16:45:59 · answer #4 · answered by caedmonscall99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋