do you think cloning is bad or good?

Answer 1

Good. You have been cloned and both of you have asked this question at the same time.

Answer 2

Cloning is good. We clone plants all the time. I clone data on a regular basis. For instance, if I break off a piece of a cactus, put some toothpicks in it and set it on the window sill in a glass to sprout roots and replant, then I have cloned the cactus. I don't really think that it's the work of the devil or an insult to God, etc...

Why are people thinking that you mean cloning humans? You didn't mention humans.

Answer 3

by and large, it's a very evil thing.

Of course, it would depend on the purpose, but for the most part, the people wanting to do it are wanting to do it not to create a new person that's just like someone else (it's not the end product they want), but to create new humans to take their body parts and their stem cells, which is just plain evil.

The world rightly condemned Hitler's buddy Dr Mengele for just such evil things (ghastly experimentation on live human beings).

Now supposedly respectable people want to create humans to kill them for their body parts.

As recently as the early and mid 90's the civilized world (European countries, as well as Bill Clinton and others) signed a condemnation against cloning of humans, but how quickly times change.

Now they avoid the "cloning" language but this is essentially what the push for use of embryonic stem cells in research is about. Create humans and take their cells before they are born (so it supposedly isn't "killing" an innocent human, but we all know better than that).

They aren't calling it cloning but that's what they are trying to do.

obviously they can't really completely clone an individual, and have it work out. They can't even clone animals successfully. Yes, they did create "Dolly the sheep", but she died shortly afterwards because of the instability of the process. Cloning is unstable and doesn't work. This is another argument against it. "Creating" a creature or person just to have them die very shortly after they are born.

If the cloning were only to create an identical individual (without taking his/her bodyparts), then it wouldn't be wrong, because the clone would still have its own unique soul created by God, with only the body composition being identical. (obviously man will never be able to clone a human spirit, only God could do that, and He never will).

Good luck and God bless you.

Answer 4

As all technologies, it can be used and abused. In general (maybe except for technology invented for evil purposes, such as MD weapons and torture instruments) I believe in progress.

Reproductive cloning of humans is probably not a great application of the technology, but I think it's a non-issue. Very few prospective parents would opt for it, even if it becomes safe and affordable.

Answer 5

I think cloning can be fine, if we don't abuse it. For example, if we genetically engineer some bacteria or yeast to produce certain proteins we can't produce in our own genetically deficient bodies, then gorw them up in large batches, it can save human lives. We might have to get the needed genes from organisms that were cloned. This is perfectly fine. If God didn't intend for us to use our brains, he never would have given us any.
Cloning whole people would be wrong in my opinion, but you did not mention that, as another person pointed out. If you wanted to clone humans for spare body parts for others, as they did the the book "Never Let me Go", or in the movie "The Island", it would be wrong, because you would have to kill people to harvest the needed organs. Hopefully, we will be able to grow up organs by themselves to replace failed one, without haveing to take them from another human being.

Answer 6

Through recent advances in genetic engineering, scientists can isolate an individual gene (or group of genes) from one organism and grow it in another organism belonging to a different species. The species chosen as a recipient is usually one that can reproduce asexually, such as a bacterium or yeast. Thus it is able to produce a clone of organisms, or cells, that all contain the same foreign gene or genes. Because bacteria, yeasts, and other cultured cells multiply rapidly, these methods make possible the production of many copies of a particular gene. The copies can then be isolated and used for study (for example, to investigate the chemical nature and structure of the gene) or for medical and commercial purposes (for example, to make large quantities of a useful gene product such as insulin, interferon, and growth hormone). This technique is called cloning because it uses clones of organisms or cells. It has great economic and medical potential and is the subject of active research.

Identical-twin animals may be produced by cloning as well. An embryo in the early stage of development is removed from the uterus and split, then each separate part is placed in a surrogate uterus. Mammals such as mice and sheep have been produced by this method, which is generally called embryo splitting.

Another development has been the discovery that a whole nucleus, containing an entire set of chromosomes, can be taken from a cell and injected into a fertilized egg whose own nucleus has been removed. The division of the egg brings about the division of the nucleus, and the descendant nuclei can, in turn, be injected into eggs. After several such transfers, the nuclei may be capable of directing the development of the eggs into complete new organisms genetically identical to the organism from which the original nucleus was taken. This cloning technique is in theory capable of producing large numbers of genetically identical individuals. Experiments using this technique have been successfully carried out with frogs and mice.

Progress in cloning higher mammals beyond an early embryonic stage presents a much more formidable challenge. Genes in cells at the earliest stages of embryonic life carry the encoded knowledge that enables cells to develop into any part of the body. But skeptics theorized that once cells form into specific body components, they thereafter lose the capability to reconstruct the entire organism from the genetic contents of the nucleus.

However, in July 1996, a team of Scottish scientists produced the first live birth of a healthy sheep cloned from an adult mammal. The team scraped skin cells from the udder of a donor sheep (sheep A) and these cells were temporarily starved of nutrients to halt cell development. An unfertilized egg was removed from a second sheep (sheep B) and its nuclear material was removed to eliminate genetic characteristics of the donor egg. A skin cell from sheep A (containing a nucleus with genetic material) was fused with the unfertilized egg from sheep B. The egg, now with a full complement of genes, began dividing and was placed into the uterus of a surrogate mother (sheep C). The embryo developed normally and was delivered safely. Named Dolly, this healthy sheep was introduced to the world with much fanfare in February 1997.

While Dolly has most of the genetic characteristics of sheep A, she is not a true clone. Not all of an animal’s genes are found in the cell’s nucleus. There are a few dozen genes that reside in the mitochondria outside the nucleus in the cell’s cytoplasm. In Dolly’s case, some of these genes were supplied by the donor egg of sheep B.

The creation of Dolly represents a unique advance for cloning technology, but it inevitably intensified the debate about subjecting humans to cloning. Rather than a prelude to human cloning, however, many scientists herald the achievement as the forerunner of a revolution in animal breeding that will allow the highest quality farm animals to be produced and will provide a cost-effective method of producing medicines for human use. Cloning may also be used to create genetically altered animals capable of providing major organs for surgical transplantation into human beings.

Answer 7

cloning is only making something look alike you can never make them think the same so in this case i could care less

Answer 8

It depends on who you're cloning

Answer 9

I agree with Nic and Angry American. I think cloning is insulting to God as the ONLY Creator.

Answer 10

In terms of providing advanced medical treatment opportunities, I think it is great.

In terms of further limiting our food crop not to select species yet to cloaned individuals, that is really bad. Diversity is what protects the herd / crop overcome diseases. A single disease could now rapidly kill the entire supply.