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WRITE ABOUT: To clone an organism is to produce a second organism with the same DNA. Write about the ethics (right and wrongs) of cloning

USE THESE PRINCIPLES:

The Shepherd King Principle (Meet the Needs of the Creation): According to Genesis 1:26-
28, humans have been made rulers over the creation (whether we like it or not). The One
Who created all these things – and has complete power over them – has entrusted them
into our hands. We have thus been given the authority by God to ‘play God’ over our
subjects (and we must ‘play God’… within the constraints of the shepherd king concept).
The biblical ruler is a shepherd king, serving both subjects and God. The shepherd king
promotes the welfare of his subjects over his own pleasures. As we serve our subjects, we
are to look out for the best interests of all that is placed under us (which is the entire
creation). The shepherd king meets the needs of his subjects. We are to protect anything in
the creation that needs our protection, cure those things that need curing, and provide for
those things that need food and water. In the case of humans in our charge we are also to
provide education for those that need education, comfort to those that need comforting,
and evangelize those that need evangelization.

 The Stewardship Principle (Preserve the Creation): In the Bible, a steward is a person given
authority over someone else’s belongings. The steward was not only responsible for taking
care of those things, but was always ready to give an account to the owner of how well they
had been cared for. Since we were made rulers over the creation, we are stewards of God’s
creation. We should care for the creation, preserving it so that we can return it to God in at
least as good a shape as it was when He gave it to us. We should do this in such a way that
if God asked us for an accounting of what we are doing, we would not be ashamed of what
we are doing to care for God’s creation.

 The Talent Principle (Enhance Creation’s Attributes of God to the Glory of God): In the
parable of the talents (Mat. 25:14-30), the servant was honored who didn’t just preserve
the talent he was given, but also invested the talent and multiplied it. Whatever gift God
has given us, we are take appropriate risk, and use it to the glory of God. When the chance
of success is high and the chance of harm is slim, we should take the risk so as to glorify
God. One of the gifts God then gave to human beings was the ability to glorify God in a way
that nothing else could. God not only placed physical illustrations of His nature into the
creation (Rom. 1:18-20), but He gifted humans with the ability to recognize those attributes.
He also gifted humans with the ability to worship God, share their knowledge of God, and
bring others into worship of Him. With the gifting, God gave humans the ability to multiply
their gift. God hid even more illustrations of His attributes in the creation than are readily
seen, and He gifted humans with the ability to discover and reveal those hidden attributes.
Beyond merely preserving the creation that God has given us, we are to enhance the
attributes of God evident in the creation – all to the glory of God. We are to maximize
God’s glory by maximizing the beauty, diversity, unity, community, and health of the
creation.

 The Creation Normative Principle (Restore the Negative Effects of the Fall): The original
creation was perfect – a state which will be restored in the end. It thus stands as a standard
(or normative) of how things should be. Man’s sin led to a curse on the creation (leading to
degeneration of all things physical, death of all biblical life, disease, suffering… i.e. all
‘natural evil’). Humans have been authorized to reverse the negative effects of the curse.
As a result, we are justified minimizing degeneration, curing disease, and relieving suffering.
On the other hand, humans have NOT been authorized to reverse what might be called the
positive effects of the curse – i.e. those changes that occurred at the Fall (e.g. carnivory,
camouflage, death) which actually act to minimize the effects of natural evil. Although the
positive effects of curse are not good in an absolute sense (i.e. they would not have been
good before man’s fall), in a fallen world they are good. Because reversing these effects
would increase natural evil, usually a reversal of these effects would not be good.
 The Image Principle (As God’s Image, Humans are Sacred): When God created humans He
created them to be His image (Gen. 1:26-28). Humans are image by divine declaration. We
were not made image bearers because we deserve it or because we have the best abilities
or because we learn to do what is right. Image is not something achieved, reached, gained,
damaged, or lost. Humans are image because God declared them image, and nothing else
in the universe has that status. Every human of either gender, every age, and any degree of
health or development is fully and completely the image of God. To disrespect, to threaten,
to injure, or to kill or destroy an image is to do the same to that which the image
represents. Therefore doing any of these things to a human is effectively doing the same to
God, and is subject to God’s wrath and judgment for it. Not only is this why murder is
wrong (Exo. 20:13), but also why even swearing at a human is wrong (James 3:9).

The requirements are:

3 pages in length (not including reference page)
double spaced
Times New Roman
12 pt font
3 quotes from sources with in-text citations (APA format)
minimum 3 references other than textbook, manual, and the Bible (APA format)