What religious sect has a genesis myth involving being “entertained by voluptuous female robots”? The Ralians, of course. A silly opening to a disparaging blog post, right?
Well, are their founding myths really any more unlikely than converting water into wine, or wine and bread into blood and flesh, a miracle (transubstantiation) that occurs everyday, according to millions (Catholics)?
Further, while it’s irresponsible to clone humans for a few more years until animal studies can show how to avoid congenital defects and other potential hazards, human cloning will and should become just as common a part of modern life as invitro fertilization (IVF), which is a responsible for something like 10% of all children born in the US today. If a couple can’t conceive sexually (perhaps because one parent has a high risk of passing a genetic defect like Huntington’s or ALD to their children), why shouldn’t they be able to raise a clone of the other parent?
My step-father is a clone (identical twin), and he and his brother are not even that much alike.
Evidence for waiting, though: ‘Also, Dr. Seidel said, cloned animals have a high rate of unexplained defects, including malformed kidneys, hearts and lungs, and often die within days of birth. “Ten percent abnormalities might be acceptable for cloning cows,” he said. “But it’s completely unacceptable for human children.”‘
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