The Human Clay
             "On the sixth day God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he created him; male and female created he created them" (Genesis 1:26-27). With the discovery of cloning, humans, like God, now have the power and the ability to create perfect humans. Things thought of as the impossible is now possible. Thanks to technological advances, science fairy tales is now achievable with the discovery of cloning. This 20th century idea defines cloning as the production of one or more individual plants or animals that are genetically identical to another plant or animal. And on February 23, 1997, Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist, and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute did just that. They were successful in creating a perfect clone of a sheep, named Dolly, who became the first large animal cloned from genetic material taken from an adult egg. With this new discovery, scientists have changed our science fiction fantasies into a scientific reality. Their contribution to the history of significant medical advancement has opened up beneficial possibilities like human cloning. In fact many scientist predict that within this decade, human cloning would not only be possible but it would already be done. Whether for the good or the bad, this ability to clone humans will change many peoples' lives. However, there are many issues concerning human cloning. Because of its media attention and attractiveness, many have highly debated on this highly controversial issue and carefully analyzed the positive and negative aspects of human cloning. As a result, many countries, such as United States, have banned human cloning until they can develop a very educated dec...