Panos Zavos Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Dr. Panagiotis Zavos (Παναγιώτης Ζαβός, or Panos Zavos, Πάνος Ζαβός) is a Greek-Cypriot geneticist from Cyprus.
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Cloning controversy
Zavos has made controversial claims about human cloning.
2002
Zavos declared the year 2002 as "the year of human clones" [1].
2003
On May 20, 2003 he announced the creation of a human clone, according to this news report (in Greek).
2004
On January 17, 2004, from London, he announced again the creation and transfer of a cloned cloned embryo, according to news reports in English and in Greek.
Criticism
In both announcements he gave no satisfactory evidence but he promissed that more is to come via peer review publications. Other scientists doubt his claimed accomplishments.
In 2002 Spyros Simitis, the brother of Costas Simitis, characterised Zavos's claims as "scientific barbarism". He expressed his opinion that if human cloning were to become reality, it would mean the "end of human freedom and evolution". He also referred to the possible use of cloning by governments for controlling and shaping society according to the government's will.
Zavos on cloning ethics
Zavos notes that the Biblical injunction is "thou shall not kill" rather than "though shall not clone", and that the Bible does not explain or specify how humans should reproduce. As a matter of fact, Professor Zavos says that if one believes in the Bible, then one can find very clearly that "The Bible says that God created Adam out of the dust of the earth, and that Eve was created from a rib taken out of Adam's side, a very direct and clear form of cloning". The Bible does not say how long it took God to create Adam, but it does not seem that it would take a long time to create him out of the dust of the earth. It is an act of God's creation, not a process of evolution spread out over many thousands or millions of years. Professor Zavos goes further to state that "the Bible clearly teaches that God, in a brief simple surgical procedure performed the first cloning by removing a rib from Adam to create Eve. Surely, this surgical operation did not require many thousands or millions of years. And we know that Eve gave birth to the first human baby. This first mother's name was given "Eve" because she was the mother of all living (Ge. 3:20)".
He argues that any form of assisted reproduction (such as in vitro fertilization, or "IVF") is equally unnatural, but such methods are widely and successfully used today. According to Zavos, cloning can help a small percentage of childless couples to have biological children of their own "if they have exausted all other means of assisted reproduction such as IVF". Thus, cloning would further his belief that "all humans should have the right to have a child, the gift of life". He adds that "all people have the right not to be cloned if cloning is against their ethics but God gave us that right and the means how to do it".
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