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[Stella]

Originally Posted by YOSS

You know Stella, God is supposed to be so much larger than our life/reality, so much more mysterious, so much akbar as in "Allahou Akbar" for us to be so arrogant so as to decide and label something we managed to do, as playing God.

Thats why its called "playing God" and not being God:p

[YOSS]

Originally Posted by Stella

Thats why its called "playing God" and not being God:p

tsk tsk.. u know, hanging around the Lebs, u learned the skills of beating around the bush very well.

One would play God, but could not be able to accomplish things that "only God can/should be doing". So if one is able to do things, that "only God is supposed to do" as you say, then my reply above stands, and needs to be re-read.

[Stella]

Shall we dig deeper into eugenics a bit?:) Who knows, we may find immortality!

Beyond Human

Pope speaks out against "designer babies"

Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:08am ET

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday condemned genetic engineering and other scientific practices that allow people to select so-called "designer babies" by screening them for defects.

In a speech to the Pontifical Academy for Life, a Church body of experts, the Pope also attacked artificial insemination and the widespread use of medical tests that can detect diseases and inherited disorders in embryos.

"In developed countries, there is a growing interest for the most sophisticated biotechnological research to introduce subtle and extensive eugenics methods in the obsessive search for the 'perfect child'," the Pope said.

He said the right to life was increasingly under attack in the world, citing pressures to legalize abortion in Latin America, and euthanasia in the richest countries.

He also spoke out against civil unions as an alternative to marriage, his latest criticism of a bill approved this month by the Italian government granting rights to unwed and gay couples.

Turning that bill into law now appears a more remote possibility, as it was dropped from a government program submitted by Romano Prodi to his allies to allow him to stay on as prime minister and end the latest political crisis.

Reuters


What are your thoughts on human cloning, ethics, morals, and cultural values? What impact would it have on our lives, how would it shape our future?


And here is a quite interesting story about the Raelians and cloning: In quest for immortality, which may well seem a hoax now, but who knows, as Michel said the future belongs to the new humans, who might be the very clones of us...