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It was 11:55am…There she was… 7 pounds…Born on December 26th, 2002. The world’s first cloned baby. Nestled in a warm blanket surrounded by her surrogate mother’s arms, the cloning team named her “Eve” as reference to the biblical friend of Adam as well as the fact that her surrogate “father’s” name was Adam. Since scientists had created a person the way God has… Is it a coincidence? Or is man playing God?

Over the years, scientists like Bridget Boisslier, from the Bahamas-based Clonaid Facility and Raelian Company have made several types of clones. For an example, Dolly the Sheep. As Clonaid says, “Godsend: The movie…Clonaid: the reality”. All ready Clonaid made thirteen young and healthy cloned babies in the past four years. And there they all remain, like fish in a fish bowl…behind closed doors being watched at all times through a looking glass.

You see, if you think Eve lives in a home like you and I do, she doesn’t. She lives in a learning facility with special doctors and teachers from Clonaid. This is partially kept a secret because society would be frightened by the idea of cloning and would probably be unable to treat Eve the same as everyone else.

I know this is probably crossing your mind…how does one make a clone? Well …first you take DNA skin cells from a human. You then take an unfertilized egg and obtain the cell and inject it into the egg. Once grown after a few days, it undergoes a blasphesis phase. A blasphesis is a stage before the embryo is developed. This is then put into a uterus and if it latches onto the wall of the uterus, it will continue growing for the next nine months. This will then form a cloned baby.

Eve is now 6 years old, and healthy. However did you know that she is NOT the first clone, but the second? The very first clone died ten months after birth, due to lack of medical treatment. Therefore, the reason why Eve is so idolized and popular is because she is the...