Well, I wasn't quite sure where to post this question, but I figure theology is about as good a place as any 
So, maybe I've just been asleep for the past few years or something, but I didn't realize that the ability to clone mammals without using the God given reproduction system existed. I guess I was thinking that "Dolly the Sheep" was just another fusing of male and female reproduction cells, somehow altered, to create a new life that looked the same as its predecessor...but I was wrong.
I didn't realize that what the scientists had done was to take sheep cells, and combine them with the female's own reproductive cells, and create life without the use of the male's reproductive cells. I'm sure this has been discussed much before, but where I'm going with this is what are some of your views, as Christians on cloning?...and I'd like to hear anyone's views- not trying to push anyone away here, but I'm especially interested in cloning from a Biblical basis.
I believe that God is not for cloning at all, although at least for now He is letting cloning happen- whether or not he will put an end to it, or stop human cloning, who knows, but obviously it is not in accordance with Biblical principles at all, and is definitely working against his natural processes for life that He has set up. Although whatever happens, I know He's in control and has a purpose for it, so I guess I can be thankful there.
With all the talk going around of cloning for the use of manufacturing body parts for ourselves etc., it reminds me of the movie: The Prestige...movie spoiler to follow--
In the movie, which is about two warring magicians duking it out over an old grudge, at the end the main magician's "trick", or his "prestige", "best work" is the fact that each night at his performance he clones himself and then drowns the clone. And yes, it is far fetched, but what I'm getting at is what kind of a society would we be living in, where life would be held that cheap and meaningless? Granted, for now the government has banned human cloning, but if it is possible, which I'm not denying, then how could we morally accept that? As Christians, I don't believe we could. Either way, it is a human life-- and one may justify it by thinking of cloning as a "continuation" of that life, since taken from the original being, but I don't believe that's the case. Its a serious issue, and one that I did not realize was as important as it is. Feel free to post your thoughts, and thanks for your time.
So, maybe I've just been asleep for the past few years or something, but I didn't realize that the ability to clone mammals without using the God given reproduction system existed. I guess I was thinking that "Dolly the Sheep" was just another fusing of male and female reproduction cells, somehow altered, to create a new life that looked the same as its predecessor...but I was wrong.
I didn't realize that what the scientists had done was to take sheep cells, and combine them with the female's own reproductive cells, and create life without the use of the male's reproductive cells. I'm sure this has been discussed much before, but where I'm going with this is what are some of your views, as Christians on cloning?...and I'd like to hear anyone's views- not trying to push anyone away here, but I'm especially interested in cloning from a Biblical basis.
I believe that God is not for cloning at all, although at least for now He is letting cloning happen- whether or not he will put an end to it, or stop human cloning, who knows, but obviously it is not in accordance with Biblical principles at all, and is definitely working against his natural processes for life that He has set up. Although whatever happens, I know He's in control and has a purpose for it, so I guess I can be thankful there.
With all the talk going around of cloning for the use of manufacturing body parts for ourselves etc., it reminds me of the movie: The Prestige...movie spoiler to follow--
In the movie, which is about two warring magicians duking it out over an old grudge, at the end the main magician's "trick", or his "prestige", "best work" is the fact that each night at his performance he clones himself and then drowns the clone. And yes, it is far fetched, but what I'm getting at is what kind of a society would we be living in, where life would be held that cheap and meaningless? Granted, for now the government has banned human cloning, but if it is possible, which I'm not denying, then how could we morally accept that? As Christians, I don't believe we could. Either way, it is a human life-- and one may justify it by thinking of cloning as a "continuation" of that life, since taken from the original being, but I don't believe that's the case. Its a serious issue, and one that I did not realize was as important as it is. Feel free to post your thoughts, and thanks for your time.
