Biology vs. Life: the Cloning Debate

15 June 2007

If Adam and Eve didn’t know much about their organisms or about the processes taking place inside their bodies, we can’t say the same about nowadays society. Luckily enough, biology has a lot of data available, which can tell us almost everything we need to know about the body structure or any other living being. But, there were a few times in the history of biology when this amazing science came to question the origin of human life.

Biology was seen as a sort of enemy when Darwin’s “Origin of Species” appeared, as it shattered the common belief that human existence had a biological root. But throughout the years people came to understand that biology offers explanations and doesn’t force people into automatically adopting its theories. The 20th century faced one of the most serious dilemmas when biology specialists managed to create a sheep clone, thus making the discovery that life can be produced in some laboratory.

Naturally, the biology cloning issue separated the world into two side camps: the pros and the cons. The DNA cloning allowed biologists to create new entities by a combination and modification of DNA, the result being the birth of a new being who bore a perfect similarity to the previous one. The star of cloning technology was Dolly, a sheep created from embryonic cells and who became the first successful experiment of this type of biology procedure.

Those who disagree with cloning made several protests to argue against biology’s attempt (in their opinion) to double life and destroy the uniqueness principle. But if we take a close look, we will see that, with cloning, biology has basically hit the jackpot: cloning can be used in critical situations or, at least, it can serve as a basis for future development and child birth ration in poor countries on the African continent. As new technologies are being elaborated, the developments in the field of biology and human treatment will vastly expand.

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