Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on it's own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.
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RICHARD DAWKINS The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale RICHARD DAWKINS Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought,... RICHARD DAWKINS To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o... RICHARD DAWKINS After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl... RICHARD DAWKINS I don't feel depressed. I feel elated. RICHARD DAWKINS I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the... RICHARD DAWKINS The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the... RICHARD DAWKINS The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ... RICHARD DAWKINS I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there&... RICHARD DAWKINS Осьминог ничем не похож на мышь, а оба они сильно отлич�... RICHARD DAWKINS Некоторые критики ошибочно считают, что «Эгоистичный �... RICHARD DAWKINS We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules kno... RICHARD DAWKINS Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably non... RICHARD DAWKINS But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na... RICHARD DAWKINS Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th... RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could... RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi... RICHARD DAWKINS A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re... RICHARD DAWKINS The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m... RICHARD DAWKINS It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some... RICHARD DAWKINS Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supp... RICHARD DAWKINS The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ... RICHARD DAWKINS Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa... RICHARD DAWKINS Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin... RICHARD DAWKINS There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,... RICHARD DAWKINS The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ... RICHARD DAWKINS Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen... RICHARD DAWKINS If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d... RICHARD DAWKINS Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest n... RICHARD DAWKINS