Cloning and Stem Cells Questions and Answers

What is cloning? Is it Biblically right or wrong, and how is Genesis creation relevant?

• Cloning: Right or Wrong?
• The scientific and Scriptural case against human cloning
• Legalized Cloning in Australia: What are the issues?
• First human embryo clone? What really happened, and what are the ethics involved?
  (Semi-technical)
• Cloning misinformation—Dr DeWitt’s rebuttal
• Frankensteins and Foetus Dinners
• Manipulating life? Genetic engineering researcher Dr Dudley Eirich backs Genesis
• Hello Dolly!
• Blob or baby?
• Cloning: Exposing Flaws in the Preembryo-embryo distinction and redefining when life begins, Regent University Law Rev.11, 1998. (Semi-technical — Abstract reprinted at ICR Impact 310)

How was Dolly the sheep cloned? Is she a normal, healthy animal?

• ‘Dolly’ is no babe
• Hello Dolly!

Have monkeys been cloned as claimed by news sources?

• New monkey clone?

Would it be possible to clone a dinosaur? How about cloning other extinct animals?

• Commentary on The Lost World
• Could we clone a mammoth? (from Mammoth: Riddle of the Ice Age)

What are stem cells? Why is embryonic stem cell research wrong? How has adult stem cell research helped medicine?

• [Embryonic] Stem cells and Genesis (Semi-technical overview, includes discussion on human cloning)
• Stem cell/human cloning debate gears up
• US Senate passes embryonic stem cell bill; President vetoes
• Stem Cell Decision not the End of Ethical Dilemmas

What is the biblical view of IVF and other artificial reproductive technogies?

• Surrogate Mothering and IVF: are they biblical?