Cloning and the Decline in Genetic Diversity

One of the biggest problems with the use of cloning is the decline in genetic diversity, continued use of cloning would lead to inbreeding, wide scale, conformity. Humans would be taking nature into their own hands.

Over the past billion years, life has grown into a fascinating structure. Of the 300,000 kinds of plants and more than a million kinds of animals that are known today, no two are exactly alike – yet within families there are marked similarities (Monsanto 18). From generation to generation family resemblance is so obvious that it is not thought about. Farmers and breeders have used the obvious fact of family resemblance for centuries to improve the productivity of their plants and animals. They have created better hybrids by breeding together the largest of the most disease resistant. Though they didn’t know it, they were applying basic genetic engineering.

In 1989, molecular biologist Norton Zinder said,”Today we begin” (Begley 56). With these words, Zinder and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), formally launched a monumental effort that could rival in scope both the Manhattan Project, witch created the A-bomb, and the Apollo moon-landing program-and may exceed them in importance (Jaroff95). The Program will map the human and spell out for the world the entire message hidden in its chemical code. Robert Sinsheimer of the University of California at Santa Barbara says,”The human gene is the complete set of instructions for making a human being “(Begley57). The achievement of the project would launch a new era in medicine. They would be able to predict an individual vulnerability and could eventually develop new drugs to treat or even prevent them. Though they may not have known, thi...

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...lly want a couple of clones like him?

The moral view of cloning is whether or not we should try to take over the role of God. When these clones die, where will they go? They have no real souls because God didn’t create them. God created each human being differently for a purpose. If he would have wanted us to have exact copies. Then he would have made them. Instead he created twins and identical twins in which neither of them are exactly alike. They may resemble each other in looks, but their DNA is not the same. God brings who he wants into the world. Humans don’t bring who they want.

Human cloning research would be unethical because it would inevitably cause the deaths of human embryos. Further, cloning a human for a particular purpose would violate that person’s God given interest of others. Cloning research should not be permitted for any purpose.