But, it is momentous because now we are faced with another watershed event in humanity's conquest of nature. One recent cartoon had the case for and against cloning. The case for showed multiple copies of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King and Albert Einstein. And the case against showed multiple copies of Roseanne and Ross Perot and Dennis Rodman. It begins to turn inside out the notion that we are sheep and the Lord is our shepherd.
Human beings are now capable of creating other human beings.
More and more it is beginning to appear that the sheep are in charge now, and they have powers that once belonged to the shepherd. The possibility of manufacturing people has been on the minds of writers for at least two hundred years. Years ago Gore Vidal said that he thought human beings had already been cloned. There's a big loaf of them and they just keep slicing them off. Quite a number of suggestions have been made about how cloning might be helpful.