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There is a mischievous story (told mostly in England) that a leading Scottish newspaper reported the Titanic sinking with the headline GLASGOW MAN LOST AT SEA. Well, here was a story that deserved the headline MAN CREATES LIFE. And how does it play? A Wall Street Journal headline urgently asks...
And the New York Times, in a lovely coda to its editorial titled CLONING FOR GOOD OR EVIL, advises that "society will need to sort through what is acceptable and what is the nightmare beyond."
When angry reporters ask about human cloning, they are really asking, "Is anything sacred anymore?"
This cloning feat also comes at a time of intense globalization. It is harder for communities to define themselves, to set norms and to formulate a vision of the future independence of the new world order. As a result, fundamentalism is on the rise everywhere, and a resurgent religious movement...
We should all be afraid of human cloning. And we should all pray that God denies humans the knowledge to ever make it a reality.