It’s been ten years since Dolly’s birth, the lamb that was cloned in Scotland.

Time magazine reported this week, “Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first little lamb—mice, cats, cows, pigs, horses and, most recently, a dog—and it’s becoming increasingly clear that they are all, in one way or another, defective.”

Dolly was euthanized in 2003 because of premature aging and lung disease.

Cloning does not produce exact duplicates, scientists are discovering. Somewhere in the cloning process, the genetic replication breaks down, and the end results are defective.

Do clones break down because it’s impossible to duplicate a unique creation in the first place? I wonder.

Every cat, cow, dog, horse, and person has a unique individuality. There can be no other just like it, for each reflects the unique and infinite individuality of God.

I’ve lost my fear of ever being cloned. There’s only one me, and there will be no other. Same for you, don’t you think?