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**DoctorNiCYDEn** · 09-01-2012, 12:47 PM

Here's a FAQ page on cloning, quite interesting

=> http://www.newscientist.com/hottopic...cloningfaq.jsp

FAQs included:

Is cloning "unnatural"?

Is an identical twin essentially the same as a clone?

Could some lunatic clone Hitler if human cloning were perfected?

Would a clone have a soul?

Could cloning be used to create "super warriors" or super-intelligent people?

Could cloning be used to save endangered species?

Could clones be "farmed" to provide spare body parts for their "parent" clone without problems of tissue rejection?

They are pretty frank in regard the fact that human genetics are still in a very early stage, as most of their answers are "possibly, yes" or "probably not".

One thing is for sure: scientists, philosophers and theologians will need to work on something like a "General Genetical Ethics Code". A lot of SF authors and literary scientists like Victor Asimov have already laid the foundations for such issues.

09-01-2012, 12:47 PM	#7
DoctorNiCYDEn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 515 Senior Member	Here's a FAQ page on cloning, quite interesting => http://www.newscientist.com/hottopic...cloningfaq.jsp FAQs included: Is cloning "unnatural"? Is an identical twin essentially the same as a clone? Could some lunatic clone Hitler if human cloning were perfected? Would a clone have a soul? Could cloning be used to create "super warriors" or super-intelligent people? Could cloning be used to save endangered species? Could clones be "farmed" to provide spare body parts for their "parent" clone without problems of tissue rejection? They are pretty frank in regard the fact that human genetics are still in a very early stage, as most of their answers are "possibly, yes" or "probably not". One thing is for sure: scientists, philosophers and theologians will need to work on something like a "General Genetical Ethics Code". A lot of SF authors and literary scientists like Victor Asimov have already laid the foundations for such issues.
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