A family again!

[arisbe]

"Did you know that since the birth of Dolly the sheep, cloning technology has become over 450 times more efficient and stable? That's equivalent to the technological leap from the abacus to the supercomputer, in only about 1/400th of the timeframe!

"Not only does cloning work, but it's a safe and healthy option for a qualified and loving family."

Death doesn't have to be an ending.
At the Godsend Institute we have the ability
to make it a fresh start -- A New Beginning!

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[rabblebabblelog.livejournal.com]

Hurray for Hollywood.

[currentlymusing.livejournal.com]

"In theory, this new child would be identical to its predecessor in every way. By creating life from life, Dr. Wells and his crack team give nature a gentle push, and help to rebuild shattered families."

All joking aside, I can't even wrap my mind around what identity issues, etc. such a kid might or might not have. Which is not to mention the likelihood that s/he'd be doomed to a shorter life span, as well as a host of medical problems.

[stollman.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if the movie centers around monotheism/atheism debate?

It’s been three years since he gave Michael back to us and all I can say is that if there is a God, his name is Dr. Richard Wells.

I haven't seen much in the way of normal advertising for this movie... the premise is clear, but I'm curious about the plot.

Nazi-like "eugenics"?

[publius-aelius.livejournal.com]

Did you notice the phrase "a qualified...family"? My own personal belief is that the experimentation in stem-cell research and cloning IS inevitably going to yield Nazi-like reproduction practices. We simply don't have the spiritual maturity to handle this technology in a compassionate, humane way.
A number of years ago an Austrian-American historian, Gita Sereny, wrote a biography of Albert Speer. It was a extraordinarily revionist piece, and, for me, at least, the most interesting book I'd ever read on the subjects of the Holocaust and the hold--almost sexual, and mesmerizing--that the Fuhrer had on the German people. I mention it here, though, because, in order to write the book, Sereny had to interview a lot of old, unreconstructed Nazis, all over the world. A number of 'em told her that the ambitions of the Fuhrer for humanity--in terms of a "purer" race, in terms of a society with atheistic, "Ubermensch" values--were being realized today, in the United States--that the United States was the "society of the future" of which the Fuhrer dreamt. When I read that, almost ten years ago, in Sri Lanka, many of my own thoughts about the United States and its position vis-a-vis the true, Orthodox "Christendom," began to gell. I now believe those old Nazis were perspicacious, that they saw something that the rest of us here are not seeing (despite palpable evidence, such as those recent pictures of torture in Iraq): that "Amerika" IS "the Antichrist," the "New Rome," with the "mark of the beast" plainly inscribed on its forehead, and that many of the world's most spiritual people--Muslims and Buddhists, among others--can see it plainly, about this most "church-going" of all the world's populations.