Cloned Rib
I had another one of those headaches with pictures last night. Some people call them ideas but I call them a pain; now I have to write it down in hopes of exorcising that little devil.
For some reason I started thinking about the book of Genesis and the two different versions of the creation myth that are there on the same page. In one version Yahweh made Adam and Eve at the same time.
The second account of the creation is the more popular of the two. That’s the one in which Adam was made first, then Yahweh took one of Adam’s ribs and cloned him a partner.
If one stops to think about it, the kinkyness of the situation makes one wonder about the so-called morality that the Bible thumpers like to babble about. On the other hand, it adds a certain taste of reality to the poetry of “two bodies as one” during climactic coitus.
If God used Adam’s DNA to make a wife for him, why is it immoral to use cloning for the benefit of men and women all over the world? On what Biblical basis do the holier-than-thou crowd base their “moral” objections to cloning?
For some reason I started thinking about the book of Genesis and the two different versions of the creation myth that are there on the same page. In one version Yahweh made Adam and Eve at the same time.
The second account of the creation is the more popular of the two. That’s the one in which Adam was made first, then Yahweh took one of Adam’s ribs and cloned him a partner.
If one stops to think about it, the kinkyness of the situation makes one wonder about the so-called morality that the Bible thumpers like to babble about. On the other hand, it adds a certain taste of reality to the poetry of “two bodies as one” during climactic coitus.
If God used Adam’s DNA to make a wife for him, why is it immoral to use cloning for the benefit of men and women all over the world? On what Biblical basis do the holier-than-thou crowd base their “moral” objections to cloning?
posted by Unknown at 10/27/2005 06:43:00 PM
4 Comments:
What makes you think God would use cloning? A 21 century technology. If he used cloning, how would he make Adam? Ancient man was trying to explain why women have a full set of ribs and men are missing one.
Embryonic stem cells have never really proved that they will do more then adult stem cells. One procedure you use adult donors who make the decision, the other relies on dead babies who can't decide their fate..
No big MORAL decision here.. Just simple right and wrong.
Cloning, by definition, is taking a part of a living entity to make another entity. When one takes clippings from a plant to start another plant, that's cloning. That is not a 21st century technology; I personally cloned many plants during the 20th century - it's a centuries old technology. It's the same principle as taking a piece of a man and making another entity from that piece.
I purposely left out stem cells because it's not a "simple right or wrong" as the irate Republican prefers to believe. Some research is being done into retrieving embryonic stem cells from the placenta and umbilical cord. Although some ancient cultures used to cook the placenta and make a meal of it, our disposable society disposes of them unceremoniously. Surely, even an angry Republican can't object to that kind of stem cell research. One bit of advice to you, angry brother, try to relax, lose your anger; it's unhealthy.
One last thing, can anybody explain to me how ancient man would know the number of ribs that man and women had?
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