There are other reasons to question whether Rifkin's moral and ethical objections to technology are consistent with those of religious leaders. According to Ted Peters, a professor of theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Rifkin's ideas are naturalistic. In Rifkin's view, nature is somehow sacred and should be left alone and unpolluted by technology. This view is not accepted, says Peters, by either Judaism or Christianity. According to Scriptures, people have the obligation to fill the Earth and subdue it.
Technology is one of the principal means people have of doing so.
These are the kind of issues that risk being overshadowed, should Jeremy Rifkin lead the national debate over the moral and ethical issues surrounding cloning. There's no marriage here.