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CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS
Human Cloning Scientific Hoax or Science Fiction; Defiant north Korea, Nuclear Brinksmanship
Aired December 27, 2002 - 17:00 ET
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RAEL, RAELIAN MOVEMENT LEADER: I am very happy that she [Boisselier -nda] realized this dream, which is just the first step because we have more steps in the future, which are very important for humanity.
As you know, our organization is -- we believe that life was created on Earth by the advanced civilization from space using DNA and genetic engineering. So creating cloning in laboratories very important, but it's just the first step indeed.
The next step will be to discover what we call accelerated growth process, because right now, if we one cell from your body, as you know, I am sure to make a clone you need nine months in the womb of the mother. Then you need 18 years to have an adult copy of yourself.
But with accelerated growth process, AGP, you can have an adult copy of yourself in a few hours. And that's the next step.
And then there's a third step, which is the ultimate goal, which is to be able to read, to decipher all the datas in your brain which make you who you are. Your memory, your personality. And to put download it in a clone of yourself. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) So that's the secret, the key toward eternal life. When you die, you wake up in a young body.
This concern is the same -- it was the same 20 years ago. If you remember the first test tube baby, Lewis Brown, was born 20 years ago. And if you read the newspapers, the front page of 20 years ago, 22 years ago, in fact, is the same concern. The same things.
We will create a monster. We are playing Frankenstein. We are playing God. This poor baby will be disformed. Mentally handicapped. What is the result 20 years later? You are -- as you know, I am sure, there are 200,000 children born through IVF. Two hundred thousand test tube babies. And they are perfectly healthy.
I support every aspect of science. And I think the most dangerous thing for humanity is to slow down science, like George Bush do, actually by slowing down research of stem cell or other things.
The worst enemy of the progress of humanity is everything which limits science and the ethics. The very word of ethic or ethical is a very primitive concept. There should be absolutely no ethic in science. Ethic is good for religion. If you are Christian, it's ethical to have one wife. If you are Muslim, you can have four. And it's ethical in one way and not in the other one.
It's ethical for you maybe to eat pork and if you are Jew, you cannot eat pork. It's unethical.
Ethic is good in religion. There is absolutely no place for ethic in science. Science should be absolutely free.
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