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Satan said:[ “I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I [
will command them and they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will
command them and they will change Allah’s creation.” Anyone who
takes satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost
(everything.” (Surat an-Nisa’, 119
The tissue collection phase is short and simple. Once an animal has ”
been located and restrained, a tissue sample like an ear clipping can be
collected within seconds. Furthermore, somatic cells can be collected from all
species. … For cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, camels and llamas, a unified and
identical procedure can be used by obtaining a tissue sample from the ear
using notches which are also used for setting earmarks… Clearly, for all
species lymphocytes could be used, but somatic cells from ear clippings will
.“be much easier to obtain and are therefore preferable
Another BBC report said that a new clone had been produced using”
ear cells from an adult cow in research carried out by Dr. Jean-Paul Renard et
“al. at the Institute National de la Recherché Agronomique in France
The way that changes in the creation of living things are referred to in
the Qur’an and the expression “cutting off cattle’s ears,” at a time when no
branches of science such as genetics or embryology existed, shows that the
Qur’an has come down from the Sight of our Lord, Allah, Who is unfettered by
time. 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
Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA, died on Feb 14,”
2003. Prior to her death, Dolly had been suffering from lung cancer and
crippling arthritis. … More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable
offspring. … In addition to low success rates, cloned animals tend to have
more compromised immune function and higher rates of infection, tumor
growth, and other disorders. Japanese studies have shown that cloned mice
live in poor health and die early. … Appearing healthy at a young age
unfortunately is not a good indicator of long term survival. Clones have been
known to die mysteriously. For example, Australia's first cloned sheep
appeared healthy and energetic on the day she died, and the results from her
“autopsy failed to determine a cause of death
A high failure rate: The level of success is just 0.1%-3%. That means a (1
failure rate of 970-999 for every 1000 experiments.9
Abnormal gene expression patterns: Although clones have the same DNA (3
sequences as the originals, the cell nucleus in the clone does not have the
same program as that in a natural embryo. To put it another way, the DNA
cannot express the right set of genes essential for the development of the
clone at the right time. For example, cells of all kinds, nerve, bone, blood or
skin for example, all have different programs but the genetic programs in the
.clone embryo do not work as healthily as those in a natural embryo
-:Telomeric differences (4
Chromosomes are shortened as cells divide. The reason for this is that
DNA sequences at both ends of a chromosome, known as telomeres, are
shortened during each DNA replication. As an animal grows older, the
telomeres shorten as part of that aging. Therefore, the copied life form has
shortened chromosomes from the moment it is born, just as if it were actually
.older
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
another 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