a poll on human cloning?

[epicstruggle]

Fact based on quite a few scientific studies in the 90s which all stated that there is no "gay gene". There was on study in 1993 that believed it had found a corrolating "gay gene" in twins, but the incidence was around 50%, which would preclude a genetic factor as being the sole determinant of sexual orientation.

I think your not using the word fact properly. Hundreds of years ago it was a fact that the sun revolved around the earth, right? Decades ago the atom was the smallest particle of matter, right? .... Get my point. I believe people are missusing the word fact. I think your statment would make more sense if you would say something along the lines of:
"Based on current studies there is no gay gene"

It will be decades before we unlock all the mysteries of our dna. (<-- opinion)

later,
epic

 

[Bambers]

er, im anti cloning and abortion myself.


on the gay gene i don't think its possible to know, homosexuality might just be from hormone concentrations or it could have other factors too.

 

[Legion]

Legion,

I wasn't arguing for the existence of a gay gene. Re-read my last post, including the quotes and the part that epic bolded. You missed some important parts in your haste to write that long-winded diatribe.

i wasn't arguing against you. I was just explaining some of the problems that existed within the tests.

You certainly were quick to attack me, even after i agreed with you on your concept of the relativity paedaphilia.

 

[Fred]

I think its accepted that any eventual diagnosis of homosexuality will be some complicated mechanism involving many factors. The idea of course would be to isolate it into a predictive science, but that probably will not happen since it very well might be far too complex and murky.

I have no beef with cloning from an ethical standpoint, once (and only once) such a procedure would be tolerable from a scientific point of view.

Its not a big deal like some like to make it, identical twins are different people. Hitler2 might very well be a Jewish philanthropist.

The biggest negative of course is, what happens to evolution? The most competitive species require sufficient variety over time (on average of course) in order to thrive and ward off threats. Excessive cloning over thousands of years would throw a variable in the mix that could potentially be disastrous (see some disease flow models).