Is Cloning Animals Simply Wrong?
Cloning occurs naturally in many plants and micro-organisms, and in some lower animals. However, it does not normally happen in humans and mammals, except for identical twins. Should we respect this biological distinction or celebrate our capacity to override it? For creatures that rely on sexual reproduction it is important for a healthy population to maintain good genetic diversity. Cloning such creatures could be said to be a step in the wrong direction, against the grain of God-given variety in nature, whose very diversity is a cause of praise to its creator, and of pleasure and use to ourselves. Where God evolves a system of boundless possibilities by diversification, should humans select out certain functions we think are the best, and simply replicate them? Does cloning animals exceed a limit? In our second cloning sheet we argue why human cloning is ethically unacceptable, and one reason is the instrumental way it would use and control other humans. This argument could not be u
