Cloning

Biologists love cloning. I suppose it might be because it’s great fun creating new life in a nice clean lab rather than going about it the messy and old-fashioned way. The amazing part is that cloned life is absolutely identical to the original organism. And we’re not talking simple one-celled organisms; biologists created a completely new sheep in 1997 named “Dolly” by cloning, and it was genetically identical to the sheep from which it was cloned. Not sure why they chose a sheep to clone since sheep are all identical anyway. Apparently they are not identical to biologists. Probably shepherds have their favorites, too.

The real reason biologists love cloning, however, is because of the ethical issues surronding human cloning.

Most thinkers involved in the debate over whether humans ought to be cloned agree that cloning humans is unethical. However, biologists secretly want nothing more than to clone humans. They're like boys with matches; they know it’s dangerous and that terrible things might happen. But that’s exactly why they most want to clone humans anyhow. Biologists are dying to clone a human. Every biologist that you read about or see on television is trying to act all grave when talking about how serious an issue it is when considering cloning humans. But you can see in their eyes that they're just peeing in their pants because they want to clone a human so badly. They can't stand it.

Without a doubt, some day a human clone will be made. And as it crashes down the street creating havoc and taking over the world you can be sure that the biologists will be standing there sheepishly, hiding beakers behind their backs and pointing at the chemists as if they did it.