There's a nice, well reasoned discussion going on over at Gnosis with The Real Live Preacher about God being necessary for a true morality to exist. It's a very good discussion, and if you question the nature of reality at all, you should go there and join in...
Way back in 1973, this French guy, Claude, was hanging around racetracks, sometimes writing, sometimes racing, but generaly tripping around Europe. One day he's abducted by spacemen. Instead of an anal probe, the charming, yet short and egotistical (r)aliens reveal that they are the engineers of our race, and that living and loving free are the keys to ultimate growth and happiness after all.
Cool. Claude Raël now leads a huge quasi-religious enterprise devoted to preparing earth (lightly salted) for the arrival of the Elohim, beings from a distant planet who created humanity as a science project. They claim to be friendly, so we needn't worry about an invasion or anything.
Yesterday, exactly 29 years later Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, a college chemistry teacher from upstate New York, announced the creation of a human clone, without offering any evidence to support the claim. Dr. Boisselier had declared an intention to build human clones in testimony before the US House of Representatives almost two years ago.
Guess what - Dr. Boisselier's company, Clonaid, makes a device you can clone yourself with. And it's for sale on their website!
PS. Only a couple hours after I first published this article, the text of Dr. Boisselier's testimony was removed from the rael.org website. Fortunately, I caught it in my cache.
