Cloning

From The New Answers DVD 3

The Scientific and Scriptural Case Against Human Cloning

Human cloning will become more acceptable to those who reject the Creator and His Word. Cloning of humans can be opposed for a variety of reasons.

Cloning to Produce Embryonic Stem Cells

Since embryonic stem cells can trigger rejection in a recipient, researchers hope to produce ESCs by cloning a patient’s own body cells, thus producing an ESC line that would not be rejected.

Can We Clone a Neanderthal?

Is Harvard geneticist George Church planning to follow in the footsteps of Jurassic Park’s John Hammond by re-creating Neanderthal people? Church, who was involved in the Human Genome Project, believes he can rebuild the DNA for a complete Neanderthal from DNA in Neanderthal fossils. Church wants to produce Neander-babies.

News About Cloning

• News

  Scientists Have Cloned Monkeys—Are We Next?

  

  Feb. 1, 2018 from Ken Ham Blog

  In a world first, scientists in China have cloned primates using the same method that created Dolly the sheep.

Articles About Cloning

• Book Chapter

  What About Cloning and Stem Cells?

  Jan. 15, 2016 from The New Answers Book 3

  The issues of cloning and stem cells raise many emotional and ethical concerns. How do we think biblically regarding these topics?

• Magazine Department Article

  Human Clones—Created to Die

  

  July 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine

  A recent breakthrough has enabled scientists to produce cloned human embryos as a new source of embryonic stem cells.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  Like Dolly, Only Human

  June 5, 2013 from Answers in Depth

  The human cloning method of Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s group re-ignites the bioethics of the human embryonic stem cell debate at a whole new level.

• Research Paper

  Human Clones: Created To Die

  May 30, 2013 from News to Know

  Are human embryos created through cloning less human than those produced through the union of sperm and egg?

• Could Cloning Technology Resurrect Humanity’s Past?

  Jan. 26, 2013 from News to Know

  Even if cloning technology could resurrect humanity’s past, should it?

• Cloning Used to Make Usable Stem Cells

  Oct. 22, 2011 from News to Know

  A clone by any other name . . . .

• Frozen Mice Succesfully Cloned

  Nov. 8, 2008

  Mice frozen for 16 years have been successfully cloned by Japanese scientists. Could mammoths be next?

• To Clone a Monkey

  Nov. 17, 2007

  It’s what we’ve all been waiting for, and just in time for gift-giving season: cloned monkey embryos!

• Cloning Misinformation—Dr DeWitt’s Rebuttal

  April 30, 2002

  The issue of cloning and stem-cell research is again at the forefront of international debate.

• The Scientific and Scriptural Case Against Human Cloning

  Nov. 27, 2001

  A research company’s experiment to clone what it declares to be the first human embryo is being strongly condemned by the Bible-proclaiming ministry of Answers in Genesis.

• Cloning Around with Arnold . . .

  Nov. 21, 2000

  Answers in Genesis had heard that the title of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest film The 6th Day was taken from Genesis 1:31.

• Magazine Article

  Cloning: Right or Wrong?

  Dec. 1, 1998, pp. 48–50

  How do we judge cloning according to the Bible? In answering, we will first give some biological background.