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After a media frenzy greeted the announcement, the scientific community dismissed the cloning as a publicity stunt to draw attention to a religious cult associated with Clonaid.
Marsic sees Clonaid?s announcement that a baby has been successfully cloned as "a great thing. It?s important in the symbolic point of view. It shows," Marsic says, "that we should not be afraid of science, but we should welcome science" like the world welcomes a newborn baby. Cloning...
"We support the right for everybody to live the way they want to live," he says. "Human cloning is just another reproductive option. As Raelians, we believe that science should not be stopped or should not be slowed down because science is what is helping mankind to progress."
Beyond cloning, Raelians are deeply interested in finding the technology to prolong life, which they believe will happen by transferring the contents of the brain into another brain with a new body, according to Marsic. "This is science fiction for now," he admits. But if it ever became a reality...
Even weirder were our public debates. Last year we were arguing about cloning and stem-cell research. This year we pretended to argue about things we agreed upon long ago. The Times used its new front-page editorial section to lead our country into a brave fight over whether women...