Re: Related NEWS Story: Ethicist says Canada should allow humancloning

[Joao Carvalho <joao.carvalho@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes this seems rational ....if christians do believe that in humans there are a
soul and a body ( which is what counts for being immortal )and that is the
result of God's creation and will , then why to be afraid of human cloning ??
The conclusion could be that scientists may clone bodies but they are powerless
to clone souls ....and if God gave knowledge and curiosity to man why not use
them for the right purposes ?

Charters wrote:

> Wednesday, January 31, 2001
> Ethicist says Canada should allow human cloning
> By DENNIS BUECKERT-- The Canadian Press
>  OTTAWA (CP) -- There is nothing inherently wrong with human
> cloning and Canada should not ban it, says a prominent ethicist.
>
>  Tim Caulfield, research director of the University of Alberta's Health
> Law Institute, is one of the first reputable researchers in Canada
> -- if not the first -- to publicly oppose a ban on cloning people.
>
>  He sees nothing wrong with using reproductive cloning -- made
> famous by Dolly the sheep -- to produce an individual genetically
> identical to another person.
>
>  Those who argue cloning is offensive to human dignity are in
> effect adopting a view that humans are no more than the sum of
> their genes, Caulfield suggested in an interview Wednesday.

Cheers,
Joao Paulo - Salvador,BA,Brazil
joao.carvalho@xxxxxxxxxx

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