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It all started back in the fifties when James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA (D’Souza NA). Ever since there has been talk of human and animal cloning. It all seemed out of reach and basically impossible, but in 1997 that all changed when a sheep, named Dolly, was the first ever mammal to be cloned. She was cloned for the purpose of curing disease and research on animal organs for human transplantation (Schaeffer 3). Now that scientists know that it is possible to clone literally anything with DNA, the world has become a rather scary place.
This raises the question: Why is it unnatural to clone humans and animals? Many people say that religion is the underlining factor and god should be the only one with the right to create life. I believe in fate and Mother Nature more so then I do god. I believe that the whole world is mapped out and that we all have a time to live and die. The natural world is a wonderful and powerful environment that I feel would crumble if we began to allow people to take over the remote, so to speak. Personally, I liked the way that things were going until the human race started using technology to change the natural course of fate. Now look at our world, we are slowly destroying it with over population and these people feel the need to synthetically populate it with this new breed of test tube life.
Today they are trying to apply the technique of cloning to different aspects of science and medical problems. Saving endangered species, for example, or allowing infertile parents to have a child of their own. Although these might seem like good ideas, a deeper investigation is really needed here. In early January of this year, Noah, an endangered species of the humpbacked wild guar was born to an ordinary farm cow named Bessie. The scientists thought they had solved the problem of saving endangered animals, but unfortunately Noah died just two days after his birth from a bacteria infection. These scientists are playing the role of Mother Nature. A cow should only carry her own offspring, not that of an entirely different species. Imagine the confusion of these surrogate mother animals when their baby is unnaturally theirs. It’s not o...

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“Cloned Ox Dies From Infection; Despite Setback, Researchers Will Continue Efforts to Save Other Endangered Species.” The Washington Post. Guy Gugliotta. 2001. 13 Jan. 2001 <http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/>.

“Cloning the Endangered: With a growing number of species facing extinction, scientists have turned to a desperate strategy: replicate them--in surrogate moms.” Newsweek.Aharon Begley. 2001. 16 Oct. 2000 <http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/>.
“Dolly greeted with excitement, reserve.” National Catholic Reporter. Pamela Schaeffer. 2001. 14 Mar. 1997 <http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/>.

“Human Cloning: Not When, But Why.” Business Week. Jay McGraw. 2001. 19 Feb. 2001 <http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/>.

“Staying Human: The Danger of Techno Utopia.” National Review. Dinesh D’Souza. 2001. 22 Jan. 2001 <http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/>.

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