For years, humans were fascinated about the idea of creating a life artificially. Today, it is possible to create a life through cloning, but only animals have been cloned. Cloning a human is a very debatable topic for testing and creating one would cause many problems. Dolly the sheep, the first animal ever cloned successfully was the only normal sheep out of 277 experiments. Since cloning humans are far more complicated than cloning a sheep, nobody knows how many tries it will take to create one successfully. This sparks the debate on whether cloning is ethical or not. Cloning is not ethical because of the negative effects it can have on clones created, the morality of human cloning, and the religious influence on cloning. Cloning a human would be a hard and tedious …show more content…
Christianity is a major religion that looks down upon the practice of human cloning. The world council of churches, which represents 400 Christians, opposed cloning human embryos and an entire human being. Christianity’s main argument towards the cloning is that it goes against God’s plan of creating life. Humans are “Playing God” and going against the Bible when clones are created and used as tools. The Vatican also opposes the cloning of human life and the killing of human clones. The “Vatican Institute of Life Science has called for laws to punish those who try to go against God and clone another being” (Xin). Humans are pushing the limit of technology by creating life with it while it was intended to be created naturally. Creating an exact genetic copy of oneself was not god’s intended plan for humanity and humanity is pushing its limits with new technology. Christianity also opposes the murder of human clones for medical research. The sixth commandment does not allow murder of any kind to anything. Creating a clone and destroying its life for personal gain is murdering a human being and goes against the sixth