Breeding new species of Dog. Fido sure looks cute, but he's a sin against humanity, goodbye.

That's not a new species.  All dogs (chihuahas to Great Danes) are the same species; they can all interbreed.  As are all chickens and other domesticated animals.  As far as I know we've never made new species of plants.  We just splice plants together, which is a completely different matter.

I have no opinion about animal cloning at the present time, but as for humans, that would create a whole new class of people that would have identity issues and could be viewed as second-class.  Even if we cloned with good intentions, it's human nature to find a scapegoat, someone to look down upon and mistreat.  The problem is not that the act of cloning is necessarily morally wrong, but that human beings aren't responsible enough to do it.

And besides, even if cloning does end up being huge it wouldn't matter anyway. Humanity is looking for a place to pop, I can't say anything we do amounts to anything. But that's overstating the situation, diseases still have a stronger hold than most people are lead to believe. Hundreds of thousands of people die every day, looking at it that way population doesn't matter.

More to the point, I can't imagine it's as bad as everyone thinks. For every solution in life there lies a slew of problems waiting at the door. It one big mistake triggers the ending of humanity then it'll just start over again. Until everything goes out in one massive ball of fire. Starts over.

In that sense, it's stressing the situation. Because just along the corner lies another sentient creature ready to make the next big leap. Time is an intricate spider web. Not to say you could easily go back and forwards on it, but the damnable pattern manages to continue repeating itself. Slowly spun inwardly till it's done and then starts over again.

Human inovation created computers, inovation can do something just as great all over again. One problem becomes one answer and then another problem, then another answer. That's what seperates us from the Lions, and Tigers, and Bears. They're born, they live, they die. Humanity is the crowning achievement of this earth because we can't live with just doing that.

If humans didn't exist the earth would find some way to screw itself up without our help.

People say it's ways to grow new body parts for the disabled and dieseased etc, but people are living long enough as it is. The human population is already too high to be sustained, cloning will only increase humanities needs not natures. I think there is a natural balance and to clone things brakes that balance. I know I sound rather harsh.

But think about it, developed nations rely heavily on computers, when the computers go down everything stops. If we relied entirely on cloned food and something went wrong, we'd be seriously screwed.

Scientists in China have fused a human fibroblast with a rabbit egg and have grown the resulting embryo to blastocyst stage.

They actually used a human and rabbit!? A serial killer is born.

Some people will use it for good purposes, other will use it for "evil" purposes. Starting with any weapon ever created, they could be used only as protection against people who would attack you, but thats not going to happen as some people will always use them for attacks.

How about the new audio technology created. Yay for ipods and mp3 players, also new hearing aids for the deaf. But we also created a sonic device that can create sound blasts so loud you can knock out, deafen, and injure people targeted. This is just the beginning.

Cloning is the same way, its great we can create new organs and limbs. Others will use the llama genes to create a defence against biological weapons... and some may splice humans with said llamas.

I meen taking DNA of, say, a rabbit, and bonding it with that of a human. Of course, that would not happen any time soon.

Actually, something like that has already happened. Scientists have begun injecting human nuclei into the egg cells of animals. In 1996, scientists injected a human nucleus with a cow egg. Scientists in China have fused a human fibroblast with a rabbit egg and have grown the resulting embryo to blastocyst stage.

I find that sickening to the utmost degree.

On one of the programs on Animal Planet, they stated that a bird of a certain species (I cannot remember the name of it) will mate with another bird of a different type.

Well, breeding is specific though. That's all outside intervention from a human. Probably thinking of controlled breeding though.
I mean, that'd be mating. How Foxes and Wolves are on the same tree.

Breeding new species of Dog. Fido sure looks cute, but he's a sin against humanity, goodbye.

I do not care about that, as that can happen naturally. I meen taking DNA of, say, a rabbit, and bonding it with that of a human. Of course, that would not happen any time soon. I find that utter sacralige.

It's playing god if you make a new species? We've been doing that with plants for some time now. It's used to produce a more stable crop however.

Or Killer Bees, I suppose you could translate that as playing God. We set loose Hell upon ourselves.

Breeding new species of Dog. Fido sure looks cute, but he's a sin against humanity, goodbye.

Cloning? It lacks substance, don't expect it to be the future's revolution anyway. And you'e just lost the limb God gave you, don't get another, it's not natural. Have fun with a ruddy stump.

See? There's my point, that's why I hate that phrase.