Playing God

When I was a little girl I was thought by my mom to pray every night and to believe in god. I was told he was the creator of all things including us humans. So I grew up…..and yes I still have the same beliefs. It is kind of hard to believe in anything else when it has been drilled into you. Not that I mind of course.

When you believe that god is the creator of all things it is crazy to think otherwise.

So what about human cloning? If it ever became possible to do would it not be considered an act against god? Wouldn't those people helping create clones be considered to be playing god?

It’s funny the first thing that pops up into my head when the phrase “playing god” comes up is the movie Jurassic Park III. There is a scene in the movie where one of the characters asks Dr. Grant (the main character in all of the Jurassic park movies except for the second one) if that was how dinosaurs were made (they were in a lab) and Dr. Grant replies that no it wasn't, that that was how you played god.

Have you ever noticed that most movies that have to do with cloning like Jurassic Park and Star Wars among other ones end very badly. People either get eaten or an entire government goes to shit. Don’t get me wrong these movies are usually pretty good but you would think we might pick something up from them. Like cloning most of the time doesn't lead to anything good. But hey why should we worry and give a shit?Apparently we are the superior race so it doesn't matter what the hell we do.

How are we to know what the future of cloning will bring? Are the clones, if ever created, going to be like an ordinary person or are they going to serve a single purpose? You know like in Superman where the people of Krypton were designed to serve a specific purpose and they would never be able to do anything else. I am not saying this is going to be the case but if it is then we might as well be taking free will and throwing to the fucken trash.

Honestly, if you think about it, if cloning ever became possible and those clones were developed to serve a specific purpose wouldn't we become expendable? That would really suck. What the hell are we supposed to do then? Just waddle around till we go extinct? Yeah I know that sounds really dramatic but hey you never know what can happen. Not too long ago we didn't even know what the hell a computer was and now we can’t even live without them.

I know cloning and genetics can bring a lot of useful things to the table but there is always going to be that one person who will try to twist their research and pretend they are doing something good but rather they are doing it for their own benefit which most of the times ends terribly. Almost like Frankenstein and his monster.

Are we really ready to bring all of this upon us? Are we willing to give cloning a chance knowing that there isn't certainty in it?