You did not read the title wrong. It is cloning, not clowns. And this is no laughing matter. As technology advances and scientists and engineers become more and more clever, we must be careful not to take God's place in creation by making copies of ourselves. Webster defines a clone as "the aggregate of the asexually produced progeny of an individual" or "an individual grew from a single somatic cell of its parent and genetically identical to it." Reproductive cloning is an "insult to the dignity of human life that pertains to all creatures in the image of God" (Voice).
             Human cloning will be the target of discussion, and we will focus on reproductive cloning and embryo cloning. Embryo cloning is a technique used by researchers and animal breeders to split a single embryo into two or more embryos with the same genetic information. Reproductive cloning involves destroying and removing the nucleus of the egg cell species that is to be cloned. Then, a cell is taken from the human to be cloned, and the nucleus of that cell is removed and transplanted into the egg cell that doesn't have a nucleus (Animal). The major problem of ethics comes into play when scientists get the idea that they can reproduce a human being. Some Christians claim that scientists have wrong moral intentions. These wrong intentions are cloning for personal benefit or gaining superiority. Although many advantages of cloning exist, we will discard them at the moment and focus on the negative ethical issues. Cloning was being practiced to clone such amphibians as frogs and salamanders as early as the 1950s. In 1996, a group led by Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut used the procedure to clone the first mammal (World Book). This feat sparked an interest in cloning humans. If we can clone an animal, why can't we clone ourselves?
             The harm done to human clones can be great. Trying to clone a human can cause harm to the clone as well as make family and friend situations awk...