...what?
I'm not following most of you people's argument.
IIRC, according to most christians against
cloning/genetic/biological enginering :
God created men, created other beings, refined them and what
not. God is the one that did the cloning/g/b engineering. As such,
only God should be allowed to do this.
For human to do the same task as God will infringing on the
realm of God. We are attempting to make ourselves equal, or better
than God.
So, the Christians ARE arguinging that cloning is an old
technology (if you're calling it technology, perhaps it's magic, in
Christian view?) but it is God's sole right.
Anyway, I'm very much FOR g/b engineering. I believe that it is
truly the only way for human to progress.
Imagine this : If scientists discovers how to genetically
engineer a being to be smarter than themselves (even if it's just
marginally) then this new....human, will grow up and discover a
better way of genetically engineering the next subject to be even
smarter. This is known as technological singularity (further
reading : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)
So, in the end, you will have a being that is, by all
means, omniscient. If this being decides to judge us Old Humans,
well, then most religions' idea of apocalypese will come true,
isn't it? A being that is as powerful as God will look at us and,
based on how we have done, judge us and decide if we will live or
die.
Eh? You sure it's call magic? Christians don't term it as magic.
Magic to them or rather to some overly C... is evil, dark art and
weaved only by the devil. So God don't use magic. It's
call M I R A C L E or work of nature by God's hand.