We're all probably familiar with the Roman Catholic Church's list of seven deadly sins: pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath, and sloth. But did you know the Roman Catholic Church recently added seven more? Pope Benedict XVI was concerned about the "decreasing sense of sin" in today's world, evidenced by the declining interest in the disciplined act of confession. The list, published in the Vatican ...

The movie The 6th Day is set in the future and is about a billionaire tycoon who illegally and successfully clones humans. In this scene, Adam Gibson's clone (Arnold Schwarzenegger) confronts billionaire Michael Drucker over his unethical cloning of humans.

Drucker says: "In two years, three tops, I'll control enough votes to get the laws changed. Then we won't have to lose our best people—our ...

In the sci-fi fantasy The Island, a runaway medical corporation has blurred all moral lines by creating clones of wealthy individuals who are willing to pay for an insurance policy on their extended life.

The clones, called agnates, are kept in a remote location where a pseudo-world has been created for them. All they know is their own existence, and when their sponsor (the person who bankrolled their ...

In a Time magazine essay, Charles Krauthammer tells why he does not support stem-cell research "from embryos created purposely and wantonly for nothing but use by science":

When I was 22 and a first-year medical student, I suffered a spinal-cord injury. I have not walked in 32 years. I would be delighted to do so again. But not at any price. I think it is more important to bequeath to my son a world ...

Gattaca, with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, is a futuristic drama about the possible consequences of genetic engineering. A husband and wife have their first son naturally and their second one genetically engineered to negate almost all diseases and human weaknesses.

The three-minute clip begins with a brief close-up of a cross on a chain and a baby's birth. The narrator, the natural-born son, Vincent ...