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Darth_Faction · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2003, 09:44 PM

Ya blah blah, Darth_Faction's making another cloning thread. Except this is simply an introduction to an essay I'm writing on cloning. About average in length, so feel free to comment on style, structure, mood, tone whatever you'd like, and maybe I'll get some motivational juices flowing. Not that anyone would want to take this garbage, but please don't steal this, under any circumstances. If you're interested in my writing, which is doubtful, just ask me about it. Anyway, shred this up . .

Science as a practice has, in the past, yielded both relevant and revolutionary discoveries to the world and its citizens. The meticulous process of such discovery is heavy weight borne on the shoulders of profound scientists, scholars of their field, whose professionalism has been trusted to harness what had in the past been mistaken for the supernatural, extraordinary and unexplainable. Through innumerable achievement, the fields of science that comprise biology, genetics, physics and chemistry are themselves a merit to those who carry its title, and their effective art was thus left unscathed by the officious aggression of politics. This Utopian view of research and experimentation was shattered, though, at the hands of those who have beseeched the recent practice of cloning, which entails human cloning as well as animal, and have split the process of contemporary information gathering with that of convention. When encountered with the word “science,” legislators and politicians quiver with the fearful sentiment they harbor for a cloning revolution, and through such fear have ignored the solutions in light of exaggerating the problem. The natural intuition of the science as an art as well as a practice has been labeled as aloof and disillusioned by those who do not and care not of knowing its truth and meaning, but beneath countless subsidiary arguments, “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” (Hippocrates)