I have a question about cloning...what are your views on cloning from a religious standpoint?

Question

If you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or other faith that believes in God...don't you think that cloning is like playing God? How about those of other faiths or athiest in belief? What are your view on cloning?

Answer 1

Yes, as a Christian, I feel like cloning is people trying to play God. (Something that they will fail miserably at by the way)

Edit: Funny one, Noble Angel, I like that.

Answer 2

One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.

The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost."

God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this, let's say we have a man making contest." To which the scientist replied, "OK, great!"

But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam."

The scientist said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!"

Answer 3

My only view on cloning is that I would hope that people wouldn't have themselves cloned with the idea that they would use the clone for replacement parts, like in the movie "The Island".

Other than that I would think that "God" would have no complaints since he created the first man and that man's decendants evolved enough to learn how to copy man from material that already exists. Damn, evolution and religion going hand in hand. What a concept!

Goddess says, "let your hair down and enjoy"!

Answer 4

Cloning creeps me out....I DO think it's the same as "playing God".

Answer 5

My person view is IT SUCKS!!! I DON"T WANT TO EAT cloned Cows, milk from cloned Cows, or anyother bi-product!!! How dare they mix cloned Cow's into the general food's without reasearch.
-------- ------ Church Authority says this:

Vatican condemns British license for cloning human embryos
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican condemned the British government’s permission to a group of researchers to clone human embryos for therapeutic aims.
Calling the new move “morally unacceptable,” the Vatican’s spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, reiterated the Church’s position on artificially creating human embryos.
Pope “John Paul II firmly condemns any type of human cloning,” he told reporters Aug. 11, the same day British regulators gave a group of scientists permission to clone human embryos to produce stem cells to treat disease.
It marked the first time the British government, through its watchdog agency, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, granted researchers a license for the procedure since the government legalized cloning for therapeutic reasons in 2001. Cloning human embryos for reproductive purposes is still illegal in the United Kingdom.
Scientists differentiate therapeutic from reproductive cloning; though the techniques to artificially create a human embryo are the same, the purposes are different.
Therapeutic cloning is undertaken not to create a human being, but to produce stem cells that can be used to grow replacement tissue in treating such conditions as diabetes and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. But the Church opposes both processes because they seek to create a human embryo by substituting or excluding the conjugal act between a man and a woman.
Therapeutic cloning also involves the destruction of the human embryo after its stem cells have been harvested.
The World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, whose headquarters are based in Vatican City, condemned Britain’s release of its first cloning license.
The moral justifications used to support therapeutic cloning — such as to cure degenerative diseases — are “fictitious,” it said in a press release Aug. 12.
“The humanitarian aims are ... used to manipulate public opinion in order to cover up the enormous industrial and financial interests that lie behind (research in cloned) stem cells,” it said.
The head of the Bioethics Institute at Rome’s Sacred Heart University, Msgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, said the group in Britain receiving the new license “seriously lacked transparency in the reasons for its research and how it will be carried out.”
“Their primary motive, it seems to me, is they really want to improve the process and outcome of (artificial) fertilization,” he told Catholic News Service Aug. 12.
Cloning human embryos to harvest stem cells for therapeutic reasons “will take years,” he said.
“It also doesn’t make sense either ethically or scientifically, since these cells have serious problems” such as developing malformations or becoming cancerous, he added.
The Church supports stem-cell research for therapeutic reasons when the stem cells come from adults or umbilical cords — procedures that do not entail the destruction or artificial creation of human life.
Msgr. Carrasco, who is also a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said scientists are closer to finding cures using adult or umbilical stem cells than through cloning.
“Adult stem cells have already been used to repair damage after a heart attack, and they have been used to reproduce a liver in a mouse. Most research is done with adult stem cells anyway, and no one has a problem working with them,” he said.
The British-based research team receiving the license is made up of experts from the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle, England, and the Newcastle Fertility Centre.
British pro-lifers have condemned the granting of permission to scientists to perform therapeutic cloning using human embryos.
The British pro-life group Life said Aug. 11 in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. that the announcement was a “‘deplorable step.”
Life National Chairman Jack Scarisbrick said therapeutic cloning supposedly will open the way to curing diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, but he said “the end does not justify the means. This is a fundamental principle.”
“The real reason for seeking this permission is probably as much about power, forbidden fruit and breaching taboos as curing diseases. It’s runaway science,” he said.
Alison Murdoch of the Newcastle Fertility Centre, who is leading the research, told the BBC Aug. 11 that the potential for the research was “immensely exciting.”
She said that realistically it would take at least five years of laboratory-based work before moving to clinical trials.
Suzi Leather, chair of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, told the BBC that an initial one-year research license had been granted after “careful consideration of all the scientific, ethical, legal and medical aspects of the project.”
Msgr. Carrasco told CNS, “For them ‘ethical’ means ‘useful.’ They don’t consider that there are other values out there like the value of human life.”