151. Spaced Out.
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Adler, Jerry, McNicoll, Tracy, Scelfo, Julie, Underwood, Anne, Carmichael, Mary, and Rosenberg, Debra
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HUMAN cloning , *GENETIC engineering , *RELIGIONS , *EXTRATERRESTRIAL life , *SOCIETIES - Abstract
Discusses the announcement by Raelian Bishop Brigitte Boisselier, the director of the Raelian-backed company Clonaid, that researchers had implanted a cloned embryo in an anonymous woman who gave birth to a baby girl. Skepticism in the scientific and theological community because there is no confirmation that cloning occurred; History of the Raelian sect, a UFO religion, and its compound in Quebec province; Religious reasons that sect leader Claude Vorilhon, who is also known as Raël, wants to perfect human cloning; Raelian mission of tearing down the myth of God which is seen as an obstacle to world peace.
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- 2003