She Know Who The Daddy Is! Posted on 12/30/2002 5:57:14 PM PST by Happy2BMe
Prosecutors in South Korea have seized documents from a biotechnology company linked to a controversial sect which claims to have created the world's first cloned baby.
After raiding the offices of BioFusion Tech Inc. in the southern city of Daegu, officials questioned members of staff to see whether they had taken part in the cloning project.
Cloning is not illegal in South Korea, but prosecutors may be investigating whether staff have been carrying out medical research without a licence.
Last week, scientists from Clonaid - a US-based firm linked to the Raelian sect - said that they had helped a woman give birth to a cloned baby girl.
However, the announcement has been viewed with deep scepticism by the scientific community at large - and no proof has so far been put forward.
Raid
"The investigators broke through windows into my house and the offices in Seoul and Daegu to seize documents," BioFusion Tech Inc. spokesman Kwak Gi-Hwa told the AFP news agency.
Mr Kwak said he and the firms president were banned from leaving the country.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency also reported that the prosecutors interrogated a South Korean woman, who had allegedly signed up for the cloning project.
BioFusion Tech Inc. - Clonaid's South Korean subsidiary - has been under investigation since July, after the firm said three South Korean women were taking part in the project and one of them was pregnant with a cloned foetus.
Clonaid began its operation in South Korea this year, and about 5,000 Koreans are believed to follow the Raelian cult.
Human cloning is not illegal in South Korea, and a bill outlawing the practice is currently being debated in the parliament.
But if officials without licences are found to have carried out any medical research, they could face up to five years in jail or $18,000 in fines, according to Yonhap agency.
Alien project
Clonaid is linked to the Raelian sect, whose founder, Claude Vorilhon describes himself as a prophet and calls himself Rael.
The Raelians believe humans are the result of a genetic engineering project run by super-intelligent extra-terrestrials.
Clonaid has been racing against the Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori to produce the first cloned baby.
Mr Antinori has claimed that one of his patients will give birth to a cloned baby in January.
Need we go any further?
Even the South Koreans know a "KAWK" when they see one.
Me, dagnabbit-2 and dagnabbit-3 are just gonna put on our jogging suits and glad-bag helmets, and lie in the bunkbeds while you losers laugh it up. Hardee har har!!
She Know Who The Daddy Is! These are wacko times with wacko cults and wacko sheeples following wacko leaders to who knows where.
People these days will believe anything but the truth.
Hmmmm, I was under the impression that those nutballs believe that the human race was genetically engineered by space aliens not by cloning, but by cross breeding pre-homo sapien humanoid genes to their own advanced "God-like" genes. ....A hypothesis not at all unlike the one that Zacharia Sitchin proposed. Here's a (mercifully) brief synopsis of what Sitchin believed.
"For those unfamiliar with Sitchin’s hypothesis, he proposes that ancient texts describe the visits to Earth of an extraterrestrial race of gods known as ‘the Anunnaki’. According to Sitchin’s interpretation of these ancient texts, the Anunnaki-gods came down to the Earth 445,000 years ago from a planet known as Marduk or Nibiru – a planet which remains in our solar system on a vast elliptical orbit of 3,600 years. The Anunnaki then created Homo sapiens, partly in their own image, using a process of genetic engineering. The purpose of this ‘creation’ was to engage Homo sapiens as a slave, and thereby increase the efficiency of the Anunnaki’s gold mines on Earth. According to Sitchin, this gold was required back on the home planet of the Anunnaki, to protect the planet’s atmosphere from degradation. This must have worked, because many millennia later the leaders of the Anunnaki allegedly returned to the Earth, granted civilisation to the Sumerians and Egyptians, and lived alongside these human cultures for more than a thousand years."
From A Clone To Eternal Life - Raelian Founder Expects Clonaid To Create Eternal Life
We're not sure yet if the eternal life is a gift from the aliens or a product of the company Cloneaid... stand by for news!
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