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To: Dwight Taylor who wrote (190)	3/22/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1615

It is really remarkable that molecular biology and genetic engineering have advanced to such a stage that man is now able to clone livestock and humans. However, I am not so sure whether it would be possible to create a creature that is half-human-half-horse (the Centaur) or what else you have in mind. For now, it seems that while cloning livestock is as easy as pie, inside a cow or outside of it, consciousness (life-force) does not come to the clone created externally in vats of fluid and connected to tubes that simulate an umbilical cord. It appears that if a human clone is to be created with consciousness, it has to undergo development inside a human womb. Perhaps this shortcoming will be eliminated in time. Who knows, except the Bible thumpers, eh? BTW, in an old sci-fi movie, "Enemy Mine", you will see how each human individual propagate himself/herself. It is not unlike a hydra propagating itself by "budding" (asexual reproduction). I thought it was too far-fetched. Since so many of our social problems are associated with sex, might not the dispensation with sex (or non-requirement of male-female sex for reproduction) suggested in "Enemy Mine" make for a happier world???