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Stemagen Corp., a heretofore unknown California based biotech company, says it has cloned human embryos from ordinary skin cells and a donor egg.

While this may seem like big news, this isn’t the first successfully cloned human embryo, a team of British scientists claimed that honor in 2005, though the results were not scientifically certain.

Doug Melton of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute said the “next big advance will be to create a human embryonic stem cell line.”

Human cloning is incredibly controversial; Stemagen says they won’t use cloned embryos for reproduction…they just want to cure cancer.

The successful creation of viable human stem cells would no doubt be a boon to pharmaceutical companies, and may point towards more successful treatments, if not cures for a host of diseases like diabetes or cancer. 

While I love the idea of science and medicine advancing, I admit I am troubled when human curiosity oversteps what I see as the bounds of nature.

You know when little girls try to be grown up like their mothers and wind up with lipstick their face and clomp around in shoes much too big?

Well, that’s what I think we look like to God. And I fear the consequences.