There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?