Now if you believe this I suspect you also believe the hype coming from representatives of Clonaid, the company that claims to have produced the first human clone. Well, that's really not a big deal as the technology to do this has existed for sometime. But if you believe that aliens created all life on Earth, that's another matter.

Clonaid is obviously using the media and fictional hype about alien visitation to promote their business. No doubt they have already profited greatly as the free publicity they have received from the world press is worth millions of dollars! What is remarkable is that the media has been suckered into this scam!

If Clonaid wants to advertise they should be made to pay for their advertisements rather that play on the media frenzy to promote this cult of freaks! Also, this type of nonsense is why human cloning should be done only by the responsible scientific and medical community. When cloning is left to anyone who wants to engage in experiments with human genetic material, you see what happens. Scam artists come out of the woodwork and sucker the entire world into falling for their scam, filling their pocketbooks with free advertising in the process.

So what if baby X or baby Y is the first human clone! What do you think identical twins are? It is no big deal really to have humans which have similar genetic material. In the near future anyone who has enough money can probably have themselves cloned. This is just like wanting to be frozen a thousand years or buried on the moon! If you can pay the price you can buy whatever technology has to offer. Does that mean the media should jump on every outlandish cloning claim and give these jerks millions of dollars in free publicity?

A responsible press has a duty not just to report stories, but to investigate claims and recognize the difference between real scientific achievement worthy of note and enterprises designed simply to get attention and rake in the bucks. Shame on the media for giving Clonaid the time of day!

Timothy Leary did the same thing speaking of building giant space pod cities stocked with all the species on earth to migrate to a new planet. Sound familiar? This is just Moses and his Ark given a high-tech twist. The claims of alien visitation by Clonaid are nothing more than science fiction and fantasy, the creation myth given a new twist. Instead of God now creating the world and making all life on Earth, aliens are the new creator!

Well, sorry folks, Clonaid is digging its own grave. Darwin's theory of evolution beats out both the Clonaid claim of alien creation and the idea that a superior being or deity created the Earth and made all life. God is not an alien and aliens are not God. Both ideas are fallacious when it come to explaining how life on Earth came to be.

The proof of this rest in genetics itself. Through study of genetics and how genetic sequences vary through the species, it is possible to show how the various species are related. Man has almost 99% of genetic material in common with chimpanzees and probably an infinitesimally small percentage in common with an amoeba from the Jurassic period!

Before I will believe aliens created humanity I want a sample of alien genetic material. Odds are if aliens ever do turn up to submit material for analysis it will be found they are more closely related to insects than humanity, which is why we call them "aliens!"

Sincerely,
Terry Lynch
Date: 6 January, 2003

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