Who is Rael and why does he want to clone humans? - "green space aliens created life on earth"

Associated Press ^ | December 27, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Who is Rael and why does he want to clone humans?

12/27/2002

Associated Press

The religious sect connected to the company claiming it has produced the first human clone is clearly unlike anything that science has grappled with.

The group's founder says he met little green space aliens on a visit to a French volcano in the 1970s. That man -- a former French journalist named Claude Vorilhon, who now calls himself Rael -- says the extraterrestrials told him they created life on earth through genetic engineering.

Brigitte Boisselier, the chemist who made Friday's cloning announcement, is a Raelian herself -- a bishop, in fact.

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At the news conference she appeared to be wearing the Raelian silver medallion combining the Star of David and a snowflake, symbolizing infinite time and space.

Cloning humans is at the heart of the Raelian theology of "scientific creation," which they describe as an alternative to both Darwinian evolution and creation dogma of the major religions.

"Cloning is the key to eternal life," Rael says. The group claims 55,000 devotees worldwide and operates its own theme park, UFOland, near Montreal.

During the 1990s, Quebec granted religious status to the Raelian movement. Its representatives have conducted condom distribution programs aimed at Canadian teenagers. They also have tried to persuade Roman Catholics to renounce their faith, prompting lawsuits.

Clonaid, the first human cloning company, was founded in February 1997, right after Scottish scientists announced the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult.

Rael and a group of investors created Valiant Venture Ltd., a corporation based in the Bahamas, to run Clonaid, a project whose main goal is produce the first human clone.

Clonaid says on its Web site that after pressure from the Bahamian government -- which feared the experiments might be conducted on one of its islands -- Valiant Ventures was dissolved. In 2000, Rael handed the Clonaid project over to Boisselier.

Boisselier formerly taught chemistry at Hamilton College in Clinton,and worked as marketing director for a unidentified large chemical company in France.

In interviews, she has said her 24-year-old daughter would be among the young women in the movement who would carry cloned babies to term.

Experts have dismissed the notion that Clonaid is capable of producing a human clone because Boisselier does not have a track record in the field of either animal cloning or human reproduction.

But Rael has said: "Nothing can stop science."

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[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

Who is Rael and why does he want to clone humans?
- "green space aliens created life on earth"

Bizarre story ping...

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[MeekOneGOP]

No sh...? LOL!

[MeekOneGOP]

[Paul Atreides]

Is that Paul Wellstone or Clint Howard?

[martin_fierro]

OOOoooOoOOooOoOooEEEeEEeeeeEEEEeeEEEooooOoooooOOo....

[ohiobushman]

No longer rumor!

[Dog]

Miss Marple is right this is right out of the Weekly World News...

What next....aliens meet with Bush.

[Paul Atreides]

Let's hope it doesn't have her teeth...

[js1138]

No longer rumor!

Graduated from rumor to fiction.

[Dog]

Ugh!!!!

[Miss Marple]

Right out of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

[Dog]

Fox is interviewing the Head of this group...

[Monty22]

Taco commander...

Good lord, the nuts are completely running the planet.

[headsonpikes]

"But Rael has said, 'Nothing can stop science'."

Okay...Rewrite!!! This space-opera dialogue sucks.

Hell, it chews!

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL ! It does look kinda like Wellstone to me....

[ezoeni]

If its this French guy on fox news right now. This dude is a whack job.

[Dog]

This is the guy...Rael.

[ezoeni]

this is some crazy stuff.

[lelio]

and operates its own theme park, UFOland, near Montreal
And I've been looking for a new vacation spot...

[Dog]

He does have a cool outfit on.....sort of 23rd century.

:-)

[ezoeni]

that outfit is gay. And he's french. Im laughing my a$$ off right now

[KarlInOhio]

Aliens? Cloning? Somebody call the FBI.

[Dog]

LOL!!!!

[Dog]

Can you see this guy being interviewed by Connie Chung.....a laugh a minute.

[ezoeni]

I allways laugh when I hear a guy talk french. Its funny. Not to mention hes probably insane.

Now if a really sexy babe was talking french thats different

[Dakotabound]

Don't laugh. These guys follow the socialist/democratic mantra to a tee...if they've cloned successfully, I wouldn't put it past the media to take them semi-seriously...

One world government. Rule by geniuses. No private property. Humanism.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812998/posts

[BaBaStooey]

I've hard enough of this green space alien BS for one day. These people are no more right than the idiots who killed themselves drinking the Kool Aid with Bo and Peep. And I don't think any of this is true. And I've read about 328903120 posts on this today so its not even funny anymore.

[Riverman94610]

A FRENCH volcano?Where,pray tell,did Mr. Rael find one of those?

[knighthawk]

On the Dutch TV there was just an expert on these things, and he remained sceptical.

He said that using artificial conception, removing an eggcell and fertilizing it outside the body and replant it, had a 20-25% succes rate.

Cloning was even more difficult, because if you take a cell, it already was programmed for a certain funcion. Like becomg a skin-cell, so they had to 'deprogram' it first bfore they could implant it.

This was very difficult, and even when it succeeded, there were many problem, like unnatural quick aging. He said only 1% of all cloning attemps an animals (even less complicated beings then humans, notebly the brain) succeeded.

This company claims that out of 10 attemps (couples) 5 succeeded: a 50% rate, 50 times as much as all attempts on animals, and double that of artificial fertalization.

Either they really have contact with the aliens they claim cloned mankind (they also believe Jesus is a direct clone), or they are frauds.

Also he said Brigitte Boisselier was a scientists, but never published anything on this matter, or was know as a cloning expert. He also said it was kept a secret just who was behing the cloning.

These people payed 200.000-250.000 dollar to have these clones, but I bet they are from this sect and are playing along with this fraud.

[RikaStrom]

I think these jokers forgot the story of "To Serve Man".

[Drammach]

Who is Associated Press, and why are they so interested in this man's religious idiosyncracies?

[NewHampshireDuo]

The group claims 55,000 devotees worldwide and operates its own theme park, UFOland, near Montreal.

OK, they are bigger than NOW. More members plus a theme park.

[MeekOneGOP]

I think these jokers forgot the story of "To Serve Man".

LOL !

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks, my FRiend. Scary stuff either way. These folks are being scoffed at by their peers because they didn't have any scientific data when they announced this. Now some experts are going to do some tests to see if indeed the baby and the Mother have identical DNA. We'll see...

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Those have to be joke teeth. No one would actually leave the house with a mouth like that.

[TexKat]

Who is Rael

Another space cadet. For some reason, we stopped locking them up where they can't hurt themselves or others. See his outfit, they just cut the straps off of it, and let him roam free.

[knighthawk]

And yet, what is the purpose of cloning yourself? The clone will never be the same. He/she may look like you, but he/she will have other thoughts, memories, expreiences.

And it will create a more divided mankind: normal people and clones.

[cyncooper]

Cloning humans is at the heart of the Raelian theology of "scientific creation," which they describe as an alternative to both Darwinian evolution and creation dogma of the major religions.

So did anybody ask "Rael" who created the aliens?

[null and void]

Those have to be joke teeth. No one would actually leave the house with a mouth like that.

She's french, no?

[BJungNan]

New Advanced Whitening Formula
and a little plastic surgery on those huge gums

[maestro]

Boisselier formerly taught chemistry at Hamilton College in Clinton,and worked as marketing director for a unidentified large chemical company in France.

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BTTT

[Domestic Church]

Is this what happens when you cross a socialist with Cirque de Soleil?

[Shermy]

Report on Rael Press Conference in Las Vegas, 3/11/97
http://www.ufomind.com/area51/list/1997/mar/a12-002.shtml

[kcar]

Looks like Coke is the Rael thing.

[jackbill]

So did anybody ask "Rael" who created the aliens?

Bingo!

[MeekOneGOP]

Is this what happens when you cross a socialist with Cirque de Soleil?

The Cirque de Soleil is much more organized, believe me. I met some of the entertainers earlier this year when they came to Dallas. I didn't get to see them in their act, but met them through a business situation. (Ming arranged to meet them for a sales presentation for some of her herbs, vitamins and health products).

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the info and link...