The Perils of Cloning

That's the title of an excellent and infomrative article in Time.com.

Here's a conclusion about the impossibility of safe cloning by one prominent cloning scientist.

But the fact that clones have defects--however minor--only bolsters the arguments that scientists have made against human cloning. Based on his studies of the faults introduced by reprogramming, Jaenisch, for one, thinks human cloning is now out of the question. "I think we cannot make human reproductive cloning safe," he says. "And it's not a technological issue. It's a biological barrier. The pattern of methylation of a normal embryo cannot be re-created consistently in cloning

Read the whole thing.


I predict that one of the great side benefits, for Christian believers, from the whole lust after cloning by the scientific community will be further proof of the vast complexity of creating life as we have it on this planet. Will that ever prove to the already convinced that we just couldn't have accidentally arrived out of nothing? Probably not, but all the same....