How much could society benefit from cloning great people of the past such as Einstein?

Answer 1

A Clone Of Einstein Will Not Guarantee Another Genious
It Can Only Promise An Einstein Lookalike

Einsteins Genious Was A Product Of His Environment
And His Own Determination To Learn

Genious Is Not A Genetic Trait

Answer 2

Cloning an individual ensures that their genetic makeup is the same. It doesn't ensure that they will be the same since environment plays a major role in determining personality. For instance, in Einstein's day it was ok to paddle kids for being bad, there was more emphasis on working for a living, and going to school was more of a privilege than a right. None of those factors have as much an influence today. The cloned Einstein could easily develop into a real genius at taking advantage of society or could have his genius smothered under multiple drugs because he doesn't fit into our school system.

There's another problem with cloning that doesn't get talked about much. When they cloned that sheep, they took the cells from a mature sheep for the clone. The clone developed sheep ailments common to old sheep while it was quite young. Apparently, they cannot reset the biological clock in the cells when they clone. With that in mind, we could not take cells from a middle-aged donor. If we did, we might have a teenage boy with erectile disfunction or a girl in her late teens going through menopause. Not nice. Until they can reset the biological clock, cloning is not a viable option.

Answer 3

It's highly unlikely we would see a benefit. While genetics have something to do with "greatness," they way a person is raised has much to do with it, as well. You can never replicate those exact circumstances. So, while you MIGHT get a brilliant Einstein clone that could do wonderful things-you might also just get some Einstein clone, pot smoking, boozing slacker that does nothing worthwhile.

Better to work with and encourage the people who get here the usual way.

Answer 4

Not much probably. Someone could have Einstein's genes but not necessarily have his genius. It would be a different person with the same looks and maybe some of the same idiosyncrasies.

There is a lot more to a person than their genetic makeup. Clones are just as individual as identical twins--who look alike but are not carbon copies of one another by any means.

Answer 5

in theory, a clone would be starting over without the knowledge of the donor. More than likely, the clone would have a completely different environment and might not share the same interests. The clone could easily become your local garbage truck driver with an unused high I.Q.

Answer 6

None. They did open the door for some good things but they also opened up the door to Bad things too. Like the big bombs and other things. So why would you want to bring them back? Too create bigger and more deadly killing machines. Even if they was to discover more good things. They would also discover more Bad things too because that is what the Goverment would want them to do. Do not kid yourselfs.

Answer 7

We could benifit so much! Everything would be so different. Einstien might have developed more theries to change physic and Thomas Edison could have invented a lot more things and we could all benifit from it if they could be cloned.

Answer 8

Well at least we could have a baseline to help determine nature vs nurture. No guarantee that same person raised differently would turn out the same.

Answer 9

It would serve no purpose. Every generation has many people of exceptional intelligence.

For example: Stephen Hawking can run circles around Einstien.

Answer 10

Yeah , right, so we can have a war of the smart people who make things to blow everyone up?
No thanks.
I am sure he didn't know what his knowledge would eventually do, but I don't want anymore of it.