Church of Scotland General AssemblyChurch of Scotland General Assembly2019-09-252019-09-252015-10-201997http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/228707"A very significant development was the fact that quite a lot of media picked up SRTs involvement from the Internet. This was because Dr Bruce had an written article on the ethics of cloning at the time of the first Roslin cloning discovery a year before, and had included this in SRTs own site on the World Wide Web. When the news broke, press agencies like CNN News searched for "cloning" on the Internet and found SRTs article as one of very few in existence. They put in a link to SRT from the own site, and all the world has since been following the trail - a month later, the SRT article was still receiving 400 Internet "visits" every day. This speaks volumes for the importance of SRTs work at the cutting edge of some of the most important issues which science is raising for our times. SRT identified four main issues - the basic genetic engineering work at Roslin, whether we should already clone animals, whether we might one day clone humans, and how such research should be controlled and kept accountable to the public."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderbioethicschurchcloninganimalshumansReligious ethicsMethods of ethicsTheological ethicsPhilosophical ethicsBioethicsEnvironmental ethicsAnimal ethicsChristian denominationsAnglicanPreprint