Human Cloning In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Today, it looks as science progresses and with it, the desire of man to

grow, achieve, and surpass God. Listen: this is sad and sometimes confusing; it

is something difficult to understand; how does the man, the proper and perfect

creation of God, wants to create a new world full of beings made with his own

hands? Aren’t we partners in this Kingdom of God? Over the years the

technology has evolved to a point that was previously very difficult to imagine.

Human cloning has long been a yearned objective for geneticists to

achieve. The process of cloning is socially controversial nowadays, as it

involves creating an exact copy of oneself defying the laws of nature in the

process. There are many influences that derive from human
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The current citizen perceives scientific advances with a certain

ambivalence: while acknowledging as positive the advancement of knowledge

and welfare, it is equally aware that may cause environmental problems, and

threaten important values and beliefs for social cohesion. Frankenstein myth is

just a symbolic representation of the fear that our technological creations

surpass us and master, a systematic idea recent contributions of philosophy and

sociology of science and technology. Insurance that Frankenstein's ghost strolls

around for the mind of more than one, though, unlike in the monster created by

Mary Shelley, in the genetic manipulation new life would be created from alive

preexisting organisms.

The part of Frankenstein relating to the creation of something that can

think by itself had also become a reality. The first time it appears is on middle

minding l nineteenth century. There was a huge debate among all programmers

over the possibility or not that a computer would be able to play chess. In
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Around 30 years later, when the thinking computer was tagged

impossible, came up with a group of programmers that could make a thinking

program for chess; they decided to work over predictions over each probable

move instead of strategies. That was the birth of programming Frankenstein.

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Nowadays, with the same principle, we have up to war computers that are

able to take decisions some times even wiser than humans can do. A proof of

that is the new NSA project, a national defense computer that re programs

herself according to circumstances, in other words, and a computer that can

protect us without the need of a human for at least 100 years.

In conclusion to the theory of evolution, is very unlikely that the

understanding framework will change. This is mostly due to the number of

characters, scientists or any, will surely expand with many new discoveries, and

scientists will surely adjust species names for the development of our

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