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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

when it was four months old. These cells
- were then fused with an unfertilized egg from which the nucleus

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- The way that changes in the Creation of living things are referred
to in the Qur'an are highly significant. The expression "cutting off cattle's
ears," at a time when no branches of science such as genetics or embryol-
ogy existed, shows that the Qur'an has come down from the Sight of our
Lord, Allah, Who is unfettered by time and space. We are also told at the
end of the verse that these people will be disappointed when they alter
what Allah has created. The verse may therefore be indicating that
cloning will give rise to various problems for human beings. (Allah
knows the truth.) Indeed, statements from the Genetic Science Learning
Center of the University of Utah provide the following information:
When we hear of cloning successes, we learn about only the few at-

In the cloning process, DNA
from a cell of the living thing
planned to be copied is placed
under the microscope and
placed into an egg cell from an-
other member of the same
species. The DNA of the animal
intended to be copied is used for
this. An electric shock is then
applied, which stimulates the
egg cell to start dividing. The
embryo continues to divide and
is placed into the womb of a
member of the species, and is
then left to develop and be born.

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