Question

Discuss the position of “human cloning” from a religious perspective. Your answers must use at least three reference materials such as books, articles or websites and these references must be clearly stated in writing. The discussion must also include at least one opinion from any religious scholars. Your answer should be written in at least two pages.

Answer 1

Human Cloning from a religious perspective..........

1st let's understand what does it mean clone? Clone means to create a  product that is very much similar to the other one .i.e identically something or someone that looks very much like something or someone.

Human cloning is already a matter of serious debate for many years from a religious point of view. Because no religion permits to produce artificially anybody in the lab since it is believed to be against the law of nature.

Cloning are of three types--

1.Gene Cloning- It produces identical of genes or DNA Segments

2 Reproductive Cloning- It produces identical of the whole animals.

3.Therapeutic Cloning- Therapeutic cloning involves cloning cells from a human for use in creating tissues to replace injured or diseased tissue.

The position of Human Cloning from the different religious perspectives are as follows----

ISLAM- As per the opinion of a sheik named Aly Abdoune , for the benefits of humans,Islam always encourages any scientific breakthrough.But Islam seriously condemns and discourages therapeutic cloning. Human beings can not be subjected to experiments since they are not created in pieces. So from the Islamic point of view,cloning humans is disrespectful, murder,is a breach of the fundamental right to life where hereditary is nor respected.

The sheik Aly Abdoune states that Islam encourages to create a machine which assist in maintaining the life of a creature. For Muslims,scientist malformed babies and destroys embryos in this process.

JUDAISM- About humans and Gods,Judaism's basic beliefs are rooted in the genesis account of creation. Normal Jewish views suggests that in the ongoing act of creation ,human beings are partners with God. Jewish holds a fairly pragmatic view of cloning. As per them ,God wants human beings to use it full capacity to experiment to improve the health of others. Most of the Jewish believe that Therapeutic Cloning should be allowed in which scientists extract stem cells from embryos which could lead to cures for the diseases.

Christianity- Christians have mixed views about the human closing. Christian ethicists are sharply divided if cloning was "Playing God". Protestants also fears that how human view children namely from a gift of God to a project. The Catholic Church severely condemns to use human embryos and stem cell for research purposes. As per the Vatican, life begins right at the moment of conception. They believe that Human beings are unique since they are created in the image of God. Like Catholic Church, other religions across the globe possess a nefarious vision about the process of human cloning

Three reference materials are-- Slide Share.net, Encyclopedia.com,and bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu.