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Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
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