AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
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News & Events: Public Lecture
The Cloning of Mammals: What are the Implications for Human Cloning?25 October 2001
What does the technological success of cloning mammals imply
for the possibility of cloning humans? The problem of genomic reprogramming,
key to the process of cloning mammals, will be reviewed. Human reproductive
cloning and therapeutic cloning will be discussed in light of experience
with the cloning of animals. Arguments of human cloning activists will
be summarized as will the ethical and religious arguments against human
reproductive cloning and the moral problems associated with therapeutic
clon
Keynote speaker:
- Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Respondent:
- Dr. Ronald Cole-Turner, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
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