Monday, April 04, 2005
The Price Of Cloning On The Decline
I hate to say it, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this piece is that the cost sure is dropping fast.
All sarcasm aside, it is sad to me that people place so much stock in genetic material. From cloning pets to all the various "reproductive options" people have these days, the culture is putting too much emphasis on genetic material. DO this many people really not understand that there is so much more to us than out genetic material?
A friend paraphrased Dallas Willard to me at church yesterday -- Given that chimpanzees and humans share about 98% of their gentic material, do we conclude than man and chimp are very much like each other, or that there is much more to our being than our genetic material?
The fur is flying in California as critics spar over a Bay Area company that charges $32,000 to clone an owner's cat.It was just four months ago that the price was $50,000. That is a 36% decrease in a short period of time. Business must be booming!
All sarcasm aside, it is sad to me that people place so much stock in genetic material. From cloning pets to all the various "reproductive options" people have these days, the culture is putting too much emphasis on genetic material. DO this many people really not understand that there is so much more to us than out genetic material?
A friend paraphrased Dallas Willard to me at church yesterday -- Given that chimpanzees and humans share about 98% of their gentic material, do we conclude than man and chimp are very much like each other, or that there is much more to our being than our genetic material?
