Someone somewhere is working right now at producing the first human clone. You may think that this sermon topic has very little to do with you. But it does. Cloning, and the associated genetic engineering that goes with it, is as big an issue for the whole human race, as nuclear weapons. In fact, genetic engineering has a far greater potential for destruction than even the atom bomb.
Atomic weapons can only destroy huge numbers of existing human beings.
Genetic engineering has the very real potential to change what it means to be a human being. To bring about the end of the human race as we know it, and the beginning of a new kind of Man, in a social setting that could be every bit as frightening as Brave New World. And this could even happen in the lifetime of your children or grandchildren. It is even possible that in a century or two, people could see scenes like the bar scene from Star Wars. Or semi-human creatures resembling the Klingons in Star Trek, produced by mixing human and animal genetic material.